Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
New superbug found at Princess Royal Hospital, Telford
Thursday 28th July 2011,
Nine patients in contracted a new superbug that is resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics following urology treatment at a county hospital, new reports have revealed.
Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM) Klebsiella emerged last year after it was believed to have travelled back to Britain in patients who went to India or Pakistan for medical procedures such as cosmetic surgery.
Reports to health chiefs in Shropshire say a cluster of nine patients were found to have contracted the bug in June 2010 following a rigid cystoscopy procedure at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford.
In most cases the symptoms were either “mild or non-symptomatic” but two patients required intravenous antibiotics.
Medical experts say a new gene known as NDM-1 allows bacteria to be highly resistant to almost all antibiotics and it has spread in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Read more: http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/...rincess-royal-hospital-telford/#ixzz1TQRWx94o
Thanks to Dave Roberts
Thursday 28th July 2011,
Nine patients in contracted a new superbug that is resistant to even the most powerful antibiotics following urology treatment at a county hospital, new reports have revealed.
Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM) Klebsiella emerged last year after it was believed to have travelled back to Britain in patients who went to India or Pakistan for medical procedures such as cosmetic surgery.
Reports to health chiefs in Shropshire say a cluster of nine patients were found to have contracted the bug in June 2010 following a rigid cystoscopy procedure at the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford.
In most cases the symptoms were either “mild or non-symptomatic” but two patients required intravenous antibiotics.
Medical experts say a new gene known as NDM-1 allows bacteria to be highly resistant to almost all antibiotics and it has spread in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Read more: http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/...rincess-royal-hospital-telford/#ixzz1TQRWx94o
Thanks to Dave Roberts