ecades-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.
ecades-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.
But now an international team - including scientists at the Quadram Institute and in Canada and Mexico - have uncovered how one of the world’s most feared superbugs rose to global dominance.
In a groundbreaking new study, researchers pieced together the genetic history of Acinetobacter baumannii - a notoriously stubborn hospital pathogen - using samples stretching back as far as the 1970s.
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