South Asia: Medical Tourists Bring Home Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterial Infections
By Larry Habegger | Permalink |Twenty-nine U.K. medical tourists to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have returned from their surgeries with a bacterial infection resistant to all but one or two antibiotics, including the “last resort” antibiotics commonly used against resistant strains. These infections involved common bacteria that had acquired a gene that gave them resistance to current drugs. These strains are now widespread in South Asia but have also been found in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Sweden and the Netherlands. While the number of infections is small, medical authorities are concerned that the resistant strains will spread quickly throughout the world via medical tourism.
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