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How This Deadly Superbug Spread and Rose to Global Dominance
- Hospital samples from the 1970s helped reveal how a deadly antibiotic-resistant superbug spread globally.
- Benjamin Evans said bacteria causing infections can adapt to antibiotics, making treatments ineffective.
- Evans explained the superbug adapted in waves, with each wave better at resisting antibiotics than the last.
- Researchers identified acquiring genetic elements, including the oxa23 gene, as a turning point for resistance.
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How this deadly superbug spread and rose to global dominance
Scientists pieced together the genetic history of Acinetobacter baumannii — a notoriously stubborn hospital pathogen — using samples dating back 50 years to the 1970s.
·Missoula, United States
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Hidden for decades, hospital superbug built resistance in waves, peaking in the mid‑2000s
Decades-old hospital samples have helped University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers uncover how a deadly antibiotic-resistant "superbug" quietly tightened its grip across the globe. It lurked in hospital corridors for decades, largely unnoticed by the wider public.
·United Kingdom
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