A Pennsylvania woman is the first in the country to come down with a "nightmare" bacteria that is resistant to last-resort antibiotics, according to researchers, who documented the case in a study published by Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
The discovery heralds the emergence of truly pan-drug resistant bacteria´in the United States, the research team said.
The alarming development "basically shows us that the end of the road isn't very far away for antibiotics--that we may be in a situation where we have patients in our intensive care units, or patients getting urinary tract infections for which we do not have antibiotics," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Tom Frieden told the Washington Post.
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