It is known as a group of superbugs resistant germs much of current antibiotics, such as Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), one of the most feared and star of numerous nosocomial infections encountered in the last decades of the twentieth century.
The six multi-drug resistant bacteria most commonly known as “superbugs”, cause 400,000 infections annually kill about 25,000 people and consumed 2.5 million hospital days annually in Europe, while in the United States take the lives approximately 19,000 people each year.
The superbugs are a growing problem in hospitals worldwide. Dominique Monnet, the unity of scientific advice of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), said that “the total expansion of modern medicine” is under threat, because bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics and disabling drugs. The expert warns that “if this wave of resistance to antibiotics is beyond us, we can not perform organ transplants, hip replacements, cancer chemotherapy, or provide neonatal intensive care and premature babies, because antibiotics are necessary in all these treatments to prevent bacterial infections.
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