OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 28236

superbug

Meanings (ES + gloss)
superbacteria
A strain of bacteria that is resistant to many antibiotics (e.g., MDR, XDR).
But now we’re seeing increasing numbers of superbugs that survive antibiotics. One of the best-known —[is] MRSA, a kind of staph infection [that]— kills about 18,000 Americans annu…
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