Half of bacteria on London's door handles 'are antibiotic-resistant'

Half of bacteria on London's door handles 'are antibiotic-resistant' Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are lurking on around half of door handles, toilets and lift buttons across London, a study has found.

Scientists who swabbed regularly-touched surfaces in the city discovered almost 300 of samples could cause infections which medicine would struggle to cure.

Most of these were found in hospitals but there were also resistant bacteria living on escalators in shopping centres and on train station ticket gates. The Daily Mail

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• Whole genome sequencing revealed new molecular characteristics in multidrug resistant staphylococci recovered from high frequency touched surfaces in London Nature Scientific Reports