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Subject Last line of antibiotics powerless against new resistant superbugs
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Bacteria such as E.coli have mutated to be resistant to our last line of antibiotics and untreatable bugs may already be circulating, scientists have warned. Health experts have said for years that antibiotic resistance could send medicine back to the dark ages, with even the smallest infections proving lethal.

Currently, when all other drugs fail, doctors use polymyxins as a last resort to treat bacterial infections such as E.coli and those which cause pneumonia. But British scientists have discovered that pigs and meat sold in China are infected with bacteria carrying a new gene which makes them resistant to these rearguard antibiotics.

The MCR-1 gene is in a part of the DNA which can be easily copied and transferred between bacteria, leading experts to conclude that “pandemic resistance is inevitable”.

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