Tag: Thomas Frieden CDC

• Sunday, May 29th 2016 - 13:06 UTC

  Superbug in US: Doctors fear it could herald a post-antibiotic era

  

  A superbug resistant to all known medications has been found in the United States for the first time, raising new concern about the dwindling effectiveness of antibiotics, the top US public health official said this week. . The case involved a 49-year-old woman in Pennsylvania whose urinary tract infection tested positive for a strain of E. coli that is resistant to the antibiotic of last resort for such infections, known as colistin.