‘We’re Out of Options’: Doctors Battle Drug-Resistant Typhoid Outbreak - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/health/drug-resistant-typhoid-epidemic.html
Genetic sequencing revealed that a common, aggressive MDR typhoid strain called H58 interacted with another bacteria, likely E. coli, and acquired from it an additional DNA molecule, called a plasmid, that coded for resistance to ceftriaxone.
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