Stopping superbugs.

• Autores: Katherine Harmon Courage
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 308, Nº. 2, 2013, págs. 18-18
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses advances in genetic sequencing technology that will enable the tracking of outbreaks of the bacteria methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in real-time. An overview of how researchers used genetic sequencing to track a 2011 outbreak of the bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC) at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) Clinical Center and a 2011 MRSA outbreak in a hospital in Cambridge, England is presented.