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superbug
1. A strain of bacteria that is resistant to all antibiotics.
2. Any of various disease-causing bacteria that develop a resistance to drugs normally used to control or eradicate them.

If a bacterium carries several resistance genes, it is called multiresistant or, informally, a "superbug".

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