Study: Superbug infections found in Chinese hospitals
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January 27, 2017
LONDON (AP) — New research suggests a worrying number of people in China may be infected with bacteria resistant to an antibiotic used as a last resort.
Researchers examined more than 17,000 samples from patients with infections of common bacteria found in the gut, in two hospitals in China's Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces, over eight years. About 1 percent of those samples were resistant to colistin, often considered the last option in antibiotics.
The study, published Friday in the Lancet journal, is one of the first to document the extent of drug-resistant infections in more than one Chin...
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