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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria detected in two Uruguayan patients
Montevideo, April 16 (PL) Ministry of Public Health (MSP) of Uruguay detected in two patients an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and initiated efforts to bring the country specific drugs that can be used in treatment.
"KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae is the technical name for a variety of bacillus already present in this country (Klebsiella pneumoniae), which causes pneumonia, local press reported today.
The organism produces an enzyme (carbapenemase) that inactivates the antibiotics used to treat it enhances the level of invulnerability and becomes nearly impossible, according to sources.
KPC bacteria, as it is known, causes widespread infection in the body and causes death in 50 percent of cases, publications abounded.
The director general of health, Gilberto Rios, told reporters that the germ was found in two patients hospitalized within the country in various Intensive Care Centers (CTI), which he said is an added difficulty.
In such cases, he added, "the battery of antibiotics of last generation" applied was ineffective.
Rios explained that there are possibilities of treatment with two antibodies absent in the local market, so that the portfolio began efforts to import them immediately.
Spanish to English translation
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria detected in two Uruguayan patients
Montevideo, April 16 (PL) Ministry of Public Health (MSP) of Uruguay detected in two patients an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and initiated efforts to bring the country specific drugs that can be used in treatment.
"KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae is the technical name for a variety of bacillus already present in this country (Klebsiella pneumoniae), which causes pneumonia, local press reported today.
The organism produces an enzyme (carbapenemase) that inactivates the antibiotics used to treat it enhances the level of invulnerability and becomes nearly impossible, according to sources.
KPC bacteria, as it is known, causes widespread infection in the body and causes death in 50 percent of cases, publications abounded.
The director general of health, Gilberto Rios, told reporters that the germ was found in two patients hospitalized within the country in various Intensive Care Centers (CTI), which he said is an added difficulty.
In such cases, he added, "the battery of antibiotics of last generation" applied was ineffective.
Rios explained that there are possibilities of treatment with two antibodies absent in the local market, so that the portfolio began efforts to import them immediately.