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Maryn McKenna, Flublogia’s resident expert on antimicrobial resistance, has a long and very important piece appearing in today’s UK’s Guardian Newspaper on the antibiotic resistant properties of Germany’s recent EHEC E. Coli outbreak.
The reason why this deadly E coli makes doctors shudder
It is past time for health authorities to curb the antibiotic misuse that created the resistance of this aberrant E Coli strain
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 5 June 2011 20.03 BST
Highly Recommended.
Maryn is the author of the Superbug Blog and the 2010 science book Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA.
