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Study: Deadly superbugs nearly untreatable

Originally published: January 26, 2013 9:43 PM
Updated: January 26, 2013 10:03 PM
By DELTHIA RICKS delthia.ricks@newsday.com

A new study in the journal Infection Control

Photo credit: Handout | A new study in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology reports a dangerous rise in drug-resistant strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria.

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For six months in 2011, doctors at the nation's premier medical research and treatment center -- the National Institutes of Health -- were seeking the source of a killer -- in their own facility.

Patients in the 243-bed facility were contracting an infectious organism that medical investigators ultimately traced to a patient from New York City, who was carrying a multi-drug-resistant strain...

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