News & Articles By David Gutierrez
02/06/2017
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By David Gutierrez
China on the verge of a widespread superbug pandemic thanks to spreading MCR-1 gene
A gene that confers resistance to colistin, the “antibiotic of last resort,” is alarmingly widespread in China, according to two separate studies published in The Lancet on January 27. The drug-resistance gene in question, MCR-1 was first identified in China in 2015, in Escherichia coli (more commonly known as E. coli) bacteria in pigs, pork, […]
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