Headline:   

 More germs in hospitals becoming drug-resistant.   

Newspaper Article Synopsis:   
 Research findings show that about sixteen percent of the
 enteroccocci collected from 43 hospitals is resistant to
 vancomycin, the drug commonly used against this bacteria.  
 In addition, about half of the vancomycin-resistant
 strains were resistant to other primary antibiotics.  
 Transference of this resistance to other bacteria is also
 a concern.   

Newspaper Article Source:   
 Associated Press.  More germs in hospitals becoming drug-
 resistant.  Star Tribune 1994 October 8:7A(col. 4).

Newspaper Article referred to:   
 Ronald Jones, University of Iowa.
 34th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and
   Chemotherapy, American Society of Microbiology, Orlando,
   Florida.

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