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Diphtheria is evolving to become antibiotic-resistant and could lead to vaccine escape – News-Medical.net

Diphtheria – a relatively easily-preventable infection – is evolving to become resistant to a number of classes of antibiotics and in future could lead to vaccine…

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Diphtheria – a relatively easily-preventable infection – is evolving to become resistant to a number of classes of antibiotics and in the future could lead to vaccine escape, warn an international team of researchers from the UK and India.
The researchers, led by scientists at the University of Cambridge, say that the impact of COVID-19 on diphtheria vaccination schedules, coupled with a rise in the number of infections, risk the disease once more becoming a major global threat.
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