Nursing home residents screened for ?superbugs?

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Patients who live in nursing homes or long-term care facilities are likely to carry or be infected with drug-resistant superbugs, a Johns Hopkins study of adult patients showed.

Hopkins researchers studied a lesser-known hospital superbug, multidrug-resistantAcinetobacter, and ways to control its spread among vulnerable adult patients.

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