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GUA MUSANG: A superbug which is resistant to antibiotics has been detected in a 24-year-old woman, the first known case in Malaysia, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Liow Tiong Lai.
She has since recovered after receiving treatment at Ampang Hospital in Selangor for the past one month.
?Fortunately, she is only a carrier and we were able to extract the bacteria from her body,? Liow told reporters yesterday outside the nomination centre in Galas when he and other party leaders were accompanying the Barisan Nasional candidate Abdul Aziz Yusof to file his nomination papers.
?We are monitoring the patient closely to ensure the superbug is not transmitted to health workers and other patients,? he said.
Liow said the superbug, known scientifically as the NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1), was not a threat to the patient and she was receiving regular attention at the hospital.
Asked how the patient contracted the bug, he said: ?It can be anywhere, and can evolve in the body.?
The patient had not travelled overseas, he added.
He said the Institute for Medical Research notified the ministry on the detection of the superbug.
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She has since recovered after receiving treatment at Ampang Hospital in Selangor for the past one month.
?Fortunately, she is only a carrier and we were able to extract the bacteria from her body,? Liow told reporters yesterday outside the nomination centre in Galas when he and other party leaders were accompanying the Barisan Nasional candidate Abdul Aziz Yusof to file his nomination papers.
?We are monitoring the patient closely to ensure the superbug is not transmitted to health workers and other patients,? he said.
Liow said the superbug, known scientifically as the NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1), was not a threat to the patient and she was receiving regular attention at the hospital.
Asked how the patient contracted the bug, he said: ?It can be anywhere, and can evolve in the body.?
The patient had not travelled overseas, he added.
He said the Institute for Medical Research notified the ministry on the detection of the superbug.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/10/27/nation/7306135&sec=nation