World War I superbug helps scientists fight antibiotic-resistant diseases today


What scientists find from a soldier who died in 1915 sheds light on the history of drug-resistant bacteria.

Scientists who unlocked the genetic code of bacteria grown from a soldier who died of dysentery in 1915 say it revealed a superbug already resistant to penicillin and other antibiotics decades before they were in common use.

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