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Scientists are battling a drug-resistant pathogen which could prove fatal to patients with cystic fibrosis

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Andres Floto, group leader in the University of Cambridge Research Unit based in the LMB, talks to Cambridge TV about his discovery that multidrug resistant mycobacterial infections, which can be fatal for cystic fibrosis patients, can be transferred from patient to patient, and how this new insight has impacted the design of the cystic fibrosis clinic in the new Papworth Hospital. More…