Drug-resistant bacteria on increase in hospitals worldwide
An infectious disease expert says that dangerous bacteria that were normally found in soil and water are on the increase in hospitals worldwide. Math...
An infectious disease expert says that dangerous bacteria that were normally found in soil and water are on the increase in hospitals worldwide.
Mathew Falagas, who is director of the Alfa Institute of Biomedical Science in Greece, says that Acinetobactor baumannii accounts for almost 30 percent of drug-resistant hospital infections and it is more resistant that MRSA superbug.
Falagas, who is also a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, says in a telephone interview, “A baumannii infections are on increase in various hospitals worldwide. As these bugs are resistant to most agents and that’s why these infections are difficult to treat.”
