BUG VS SUPER BUG

摘要

As Soon as Alex Khoruts set eyes on the 89-year-old patient, he realised the outlook was grim. Racked with fever and delirium, the woman was convinced she was living with her long-dead parents. A sky-high white blood cell count showed her body was battling to stave off a possibly fatal infection. A colonoscopy quickly laid bare the problem. Parts of the woman's large intestine had become severely septic and were so tightly constricted the probe could barely pass through it. For Khoruts, a gastroenterologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, the next step was clear.