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Superbug fears for whooping cough

UNSW Sydney researchers are calling for a new whooping cough vaccine in the face of a rise of evolving strains that can evade vaccine-generated immunity. The bacteria of the highly contagious respiratory disease are...

24 January, 2020

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Travelers import superbugs

Many tourists returning from India were found colonized with multidrug-resistant “superbugs.” Microbiologists at the Institute for Infectious Diseases of the University of Bern, Switzerland, also isolated a...

22 July, 2016

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New weapon in fight against ‘superbugs’

Some harmful bacteria are increasingly resistant to treatment with antibiotics. A discovery might be able to help the antibiotics treat the disease. A soil sample from a national park in eastern Canada has produced a...

1 July, 2014

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