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Published online 11 October 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021007-12
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Superbug strikes again
Alternative antibiotics offer slim comfort as potent strain returns.
A drug-resistant superbug has resurfaced, doctors announced today, leaving researchers scrabbling for the next line of antibiotic defence.
The rogue Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, identified in the foot ulcer of a Pennsylvania patient, are resistant to vancomycin, one of the last lines of antibiotic defence1.
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