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Antimicrobial resistance on his own leg turns a Kenyan health worker into an advocate for wiser use of antibiotics
Josphat, a health worker based in Nairobi, needed a skin graft on his leg in 2013. But then, what is typically a common procedure nowadays became a medical nightmare. The donor site on his thigh took longer to heal than expected and was nonresponsive to conventional antibiotics. Laboratory tests revealed