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Preventing Super Bug Infections

Published January 8, 2009, 11:28 pm, Lexington Clipper-Herald

(ARA) - Each year more than a million patients in the United States develop infections caused by deadly super bugs that have developed resistance to the antibiotics normally used to treat them.

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