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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7967998/Superbugs-linked-to-premature-baby-deaths.html
Superbugs linked to premature baby deaths
Babies at a world leading neonatal unit have been found with serious superbugs that are reistant to common antibiotics and three have died, it has emerged.
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
Published: 7:00AM BST 30 Aug 2010
Doctors at University College Hospital last month found bacteria on the unit that were resistant to antibiotics commonly used to treat infections in very premature babies.
Over six weeks 15 babies were found to be carrying several types of bacteria, 13 of which had bugs resistant to treatment with gentamicin.
Of those nine carried the resistant bacteria on their skin and four had bloodstream infections...
Superbugs linked to premature baby deaths
Babies at a world leading neonatal unit have been found with serious superbugs that are reistant to common antibiotics and three have died, it has emerged.
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
Published: 7:00AM BST 30 Aug 2010
Doctors at University College Hospital last month found bacteria on the unit that were resistant to antibiotics commonly used to treat infections in very premature babies.
Over six weeks 15 babies were found to be carrying several types of bacteria, 13 of which had bugs resistant to treatment with gentamicin.
Of those nine carried the resistant bacteria on their skin and four had bloodstream infections...