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A Last-Resort Antibiotic Is Losing The Battle Against a Dangerous Hospital Bug


The combination drug ceftazidime-avibactam (CZA) is a last line of defense against the common Pseudomonas aeruginosa hospital bug: It's the drug that gets called in when nothing else works, but there's now evidence that it may not keep working for long.

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