Scientists Find a Weak Spot in Some Superbugs' Defenses
Scientists Find a Weak Spot in Some Superbugs' Defenses
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 13, 20195m 58s
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Show Notes
In 2004, a 64-year-old woman in Indiana had a catheter put in to help with dialysis. Soon after the procedure, she came to a local hospital with low blood pressure and what turned out to be a dangerous antibiotic-resistant infection from a bacteria called Enterococcus faecalis. Today, that woman’s blood samples helped solve a long-standing mystery: how this deadly bacteria neutralizes the most powerful antibiotic used to fight it.
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