Klebsiella pneumoniae, Antimicrobial resistance, Hospital-Related Infection — Worldwide/Unknown
The Democratic Alliance [DA] says it has been reliably informed that an outbreak of the multidrug resistant “superbug” _Klebsiella_ has hit Durban’s [KwaZulu-Natal] Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital’s neonatal ICU, with 10 babies infected in less than 2 weeks.
It was uncertain whether there had been any deaths to date at the hospital in Phoenix, [Durban] KwaZulu-Natal MPL Dr Imran Keeka said on [Sun 1 May 2016]. “In the ICU setting, the bacteria can cause life threatening or fatal
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