A superbug resistant to all antibiotics in the U.S. killed a woman in Nevada

This inoculated MacConkey agar culture plate cultivated colonial growth of Gram-negative, small rod-shaped and facultatively anaerobic Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria.K. pneumoniae bacteria are commonly found in the human gastrointestinal tract, and are often the cause of hospital acquired, or nosocomial infections involving the urinary and pulmonary systems. 1976 L-269, Enteric Gram-Negative Rods on Plating and Biochemical Media; Slide P76-98 CD_100_DH/ 052 There's now a superbug resistant to all U.S. antibiotics and it just killed a woman in Nevada. The superbug infected a bone in her leg after an operation. Doctors later tested the bacteria and found it would have been susceptible to fosfomycin. But that drug is not legal in the U.S. Scientists are working hard to find solutions to superbugs like these. A team recently found bacteria in ancient caves that could lead to new antibiotics, stronger than what we have. It is ulcer why this bacteria was resistant to so many types of antibiotics. But the woman was isolated so the superbug wouldn't spread and no one else has been infected. Yet, so we're safe for now.