Their concern about the high levels of resistance to the drugs they concern bacteria which often cause infections of the blood express its experts WHERE as it emerges from the data of a 2020 report covering 87 countries and released today, Friday (9/12).
Concern about these pathogens, known as superbugs, that are resistant to existing drugs is not new, but it intensified in the first year of the pandemic. coronavirus.
Prolonged overuse and/or misuse of existing treatments, especially antibiotics, has helped microbes become resistant to many treatments, while information on replacement treatments that are under development is limited.
The WHO report, as reported by the Athens News Agency, showed levels of resistance higher than 50% in bacteria that commonly cause life-threatening blood infections in hospitals, such as Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter spp.
Source: News Beast
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