U.S. 'Super Bugs' Invading South America
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 10:28
in Health & Medicine
Two clones of highly antibiotic-resistant organism strains, which previously had only been identified in the United States, are now causing serious sickness and death in several Colombian cities including the capital Bogotá, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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