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Antibiotic Use By Travelers May Add To Global Spread Of Superbugs

Staff Writer | Infection Control Today | January 22, 2015

Taking antibiotics for diarrhea may put travelers visiting developing parts of the world at higher risk for contracting superbugs and spreading these daunting drug-resistant bacteria to their home countries, according to a new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and now available online...

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Serious Resistant Infections Increasingly Found In Children

Maryn McKenna | Wired | March 24, 2014

Here’s some disturbing news published late last week in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society by a team of researchers from two Chicago medical institutions plus an expert analyst of antibiotic resistance: Serious drug-resistant infections in children are rising across the United States. [...] Read More »