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Antibiotic resistance: World on cusp of 'post-antibiotic era'

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The resistance was discovered in pigs, which are routinely given the drugs in China. Getty Images.

Image: The resistance was discovered in pigs, which are routinely given the drugs in China. Getty Images.

bbc.com - November 19th, 2015 - James Gallagher

The world is on the cusp of a "post-antibiotic era", scientists have warned after finding bacteria resistant to drugs used when all other treatments have failed.

They identified bacteria able to shrug off the drug of last resort - colistin - in patients and livestock in China.

They said that resistance would spread around the world and raised the spectre of untreatable infections.

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Supporting documentation for the article above is within the link below . . .

Emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance mechanism MCR-1 in animals and human beings in China: a microbiological and molecular biological study

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099%2815%2900424-7/abstract

E.coli has developed resistance to last-line of antibiotics, warn scientists

Dangerous bacteria like E.coli have developed resistance to our last line of antibiotics, scientists have warned

telegraph.co.uk - by Sarah Knapton - November 18, 2015

Bacteria like E.Coli have mutated to be resistant to our last-line of antibiotics and untreateable bugs may already be circulating in Britain, scientists have warned.

Health experts have warned for years that antibiotic resistance could send medicine back to the dark ages, with even the smallest infections proving lethal. . . .

. . . British scientists and health experts described the discovery as ‘worrying,’ ‘disturbing’ and ‘alarming.’

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