Tracing bacterial genomes revealed the surprising way that an infection spread throughout a hospital.

Between June and December of last year, 17 patients at the Clinical Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, came down with a bloodstream infection; six of them died.

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