A mother’s loss launches a global effort to fight antibiotic resistance
By Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — In November 2017, days after her daughter Mallory Smith died from a drug-resistant infection at the age of 25, Diane Shader Smith typed a password into Mallory’s laptop.
Her daughter gave it to her before undergoing double-lung transplant surgery, with instructions to share any writing that could help others if she didn’t survive.
The transplant was successful, but Burkholderia cepacia — an antibiotic-resistant bacterial...
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