Of the chicken tested, 53% was tainted with an antibiotic-resistant form of E.coli, the report said.

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Almost half of patients with the multi-drug resistant form of the disease die.

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The more promising candidates were then cooked up and injected into a test tube holding a notoriously resistant form of ovarian cancer preserved from years ago.

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They then went through them to see how many mentioned MRSA, the drug-resistant form of the infection, as a direct or contributing cause of death.

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Doctors in Mumbai said 12 patients had a "totally drug resistant" form of the infection, and three have died.

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Experts say Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a form of staph resistant to common antibiotics, has become a more prevalent problem in settings such as contact sports that involve skin-to-skin touching.

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XDR-TB is a particularly dangerous form of the disease that is resistant not only to the two most potent TB drugs, but also a handful of second-line drugs.

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Phase 2 testing of elesclomol resulted in surprising data indicating that the compound might be an effective treatment for metastatic melanoma, a form of skin cancer that was notoriously resistant to treatment.

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This suggests that those people with an aberrant form of the protein (the result of the defective gene) might be more resistant to herpes infection than their fellows.

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