Philadelphia—In December 2017, a woman went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago complaining of severe pain and swelling. The diagnosis was clear: necrosis. She had been discharged from the hospital one week earlier after undergoing a mastectomy with flap reconstruction. Despite receiving multiple antibiotics before and after her procedure, her skin was infected with ceftriaxone-resistant Aeromonas hydrophila. How had she acquired such a dangerous strain of
AUGUST 23, 2019