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25 January 2012
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SRF Rundschau
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How new bacteria appear in Dutch hospitals |
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The Maasstad hospital in Rotterdam has been in the news since June this year after the outbreak of an antibiotic bacterium named Klebsiella Oxa-48 that has likely caused the death of 78 people since June. Question arises on how this new bacterium could appear in the Netherlands. Hospital bacteria are not a new phenomenon in the world. In a place where the use of antibiotics is widespread, the risk of resistant bacteria increases likewise. A hospital in the southern region of the Netherlands for example decided to close its IC department on Monday after another bacteria, the so called MRSA , had been detected. This bacterium has become resistant for the most used antibiotics. Thanks to a strict government policy that regulates the use of antibiotics, only 1 percent of the patients are contaminated with this bacteria.
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