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Top ten superbug super-villains

By Flora Graham

10 October 2011

Âé¶¹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Immune system’s most wanted

(Image: Dr Kari Lounatmaa/Science Photo Library/Getty)

Drug-resistant superbugs are potentially deadly strains of micro-organisms that we once had the power to control. Now these mutants take on the best of our medical weapons, wreaking havoc on the world’s health. Here is our rogue’s gallery of the micro most wanted.

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