Fast-Changing Genetics Key to Hospital Superbug Survival

  09 April 2019

By genetically analysing 100 strains of K. pneumoniae bacteria sampled from infected patients, carriers without symptoms and the hospital ward environment over a 14-month period, they found that the bacteria were highly transmissible and able to genetically adapt to any available antibiotic within very short periods of time.

Further reading: Infection Control Today
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