• One Size Some­times Can Fit All

    by Merry Youle — In 2008, a man died in a Swedish hos­pi­tal from an an­tibi­otic-re­sis­tant uri­nary tract in­fec­tion that he had ac­quired on a re­cent trip to New Delhi. The bug re­spon­si­ble was a Kleb­siella pneu­mo­niae strain that was found to har­bor a new, plas­mid-en­coded, an­tibi­otic re­sis­tance gene. By 2009, this an­tibi­otic re­sis­tance fac­tor…