She was infected with Methicillin Resistant Staphyloccocus Aureus - MRSA - one of the so-called "super bugs" which are highly resistant to treatment.
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.
Tuberculosis which appears to be totally resistant to antibiotic treatment has been reported for the first time by Indian doctors.
They observed it was present at higher levels in cancer cells that were resistant to a common treatment for the disease.
When antibiotics enter the body, bacteria will inevitably mutate to become more resistant: The ones that survive the treatment to reproduce are the strongest.
Overuse means many bacteria have become resistant to many forms of the treatment, and the willingness of drug firms to bring new brands onto the market appears to be faltering.
Incyte also plans to tests its drug in treatment resistant forms of this disease.
They also argued over-use of the company's weedkiller Roundup, the chemical treatment the alfalfa is modified to be resistant to, could cause pollution of ground water and lead to resistant "super-weeds".
"But even if we upgraded those systems, the lack of a really effective vaccine, the lack of better and faster drugs that shorten treatment to a reasonable time and the lack of good drugs for treating resistant disease -- make it hard for any health care system to effectively deal with the disease, " he said.
According to Peter Appelbaum, a pathologist at Penn State University, the drug is somewhat similar to vancomycin, a drug doctors use as a treatment of last resort, when other antibiotics are resistant.
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