Thursday, November 11, 2010

Referral: Maryn McKenna Updates NDM-1

 

 

 

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Maryn McKenna, our resident expert on antimicrobial resistance (and author of Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA) has a new blog entry today on a couple of EID Journal reports on the international spread of the NDM-1 resistance gene.

 

NDM-1, the supergene: Further (community?) spread

 

After you’ve read her latest update, click on this Superbug Blog link to read some of Maryn’s previous blogs on NDM-1 (and other issues).

 

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And if you haven’t read Maryn’s book on MRSA, read my review, then go buy the book.