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Drug-resistant superbug spreading in Europe's hospitals - BBC News
Superbugs resistant to emergency antibiotics are spreading in hospitals, a Europe-wide study shows.
Drugs called carbapenems are used when an infection cannot be treated with anything else.
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The spread of resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae was "extremely concerning", researchers said. And they warned other bugs could become resistant too - because of the unique way bacteria have sex.
'Two bacteria can meet up and have bacterial sex - called conjugation - and a short string of genetic information, called a plasmid, is shared between them. And the study found the instructions that give K. pneumoniae carbapenem resistance written on to plasmids.'
Most of the spread of this disease is happening in hospitals - from Ireland to Israel.
Superbugs resistant to emergency antibiotics are spreading in hospitals, a Europe-wide study shows.
Drugs called carbapenems are used when an infection cannot be treated with anything else.
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The spread of resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae was "extremely concerning", researchers said. And they warned other bugs could become resistant too - because of the unique way bacteria have sex.
'Two bacteria can meet up and have bacterial sex - called conjugation - and a short string of genetic information, called a plasmid, is shared between them. And the study found the instructions that give K. pneumoniae carbapenem resistance written on to plasmids.'
Most of the spread of this disease is happening in hospitals - from Ireland to Israel.