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PRO/EDR> Sphingomonas koreensis, MDR – USA: (MD) nosocomial, fatal, contaminated water

Hospital-Related Infection -- United StatesIn 2016, a mysterious illness spread inside the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center, the U.S. government's most prominent research hospital, in Bethesda, Maryland. Patients were somehow being sickened by an antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria that practically never causes disease in humans. Two years later, a new study seems to finally have confirmed where this bug likely came from: the hospital's own plumbing.During a 6-month period in 2016, Read more [...]