Deadly superbug just got scarier—it can mysteriously thwart last-resort drug

Enlarge / Medical illustration of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. (credit: CDC) For the first time, researchers have discovered strains of a deadly, multidrug-resistant bacterium that uses a cryptic method to also evade colistin, an antibiotic used as a last-resort treatment. That’s according to a study of US patients published this week by Emory University researchers in the […]