Monday, 10 December 2018

Dangerous new superbug confirmed in India as antibiotic resistance spreads

Dangerous new superbug confirmed in India as antibiotic resistance spreads India has found its first cases of a superbug that can lead to blindness, flesh-eating infections and meningitis, according to researchers.

Klebsiella pneumoniae was found in patients by doctors at the Christian Medical College (CMC), in the city of Vellore, over a two-year period, after they were admitted for sepsis.

Researchers found that 27 (31 per cent) of 86 patients treated for sepsis in the hospital had become infected by a strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, that was found to be both resistant to antibiotics and hypervirulent. The Daily Telegraph

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