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KPC: Klebsiella pneumoniae seventh victim in hospital in Maryland

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KPC: Klebsiella pneumoniae seventh victim in hospital in Maryland
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Killer superbug

Klebsiella pneumoniae seventh victim in hospital in Maryland

When everyone thought the nightmare was over, the deadly strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae germ, known as KPC, a bacterium that is resistant to known antibiotics, struck again in the United States and killing a minor patient in a hospital known of Maryland, in the United States.

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The case of Minnesota boy died represented the first new infection of this pathogen in the NIH since last January.
This is the seventh person Clinic Health in Maryland, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which dies by the germ, as confirmed by the Washington Post.
officials revealed the NIH newspaper cited a Minnesota boy died last September 7.
The source consulted at NIH explained that reached the small research hospital in Bethesda April and was being treated for complications of a bone marrow transplant when he contracted the bacteria.
was the nineteenth hospital patient who contracted a strain of KPC, in an outbreak that originated from a patient carrying the superbug and came to the hospital Last summer, 2011.
Last August, epidemiologist Dr. Tara Palmore and geneticist Dr. Julie Segre, National Institute of Human Genome Research, secured at NIH, in Bethesda, Maryland, that the superbug was controlled, something that facts now show that it was not really.
 
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