How quickly antibiotic resistance can spread

How quickly can antibiotic resistance spread? Consider the case of a Swedish man who traveled to India in 2009. While in New Delhi, the man became infected by a strain of Klebsiella bacteria bearing a gene that made it impervious to the antibiotic carbapenem. Microbiologists quickly found the gene...

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