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Inhabitants of the gut, but when they develop resistance, they are really untreatable by virtually any antibiotic we have. that's the first thing. the second thing is that what it does is that it invades the blood and tissue. and the mortality of people who do get infected is very high, approximately 50%. and the other real problem that you face is that it has the capability of transferring that resistance that's part of its own genetic structure to other microbes to make them resistant. so although this is something that, you know, historically had not been a big threat, it's becoming a growi...