A new form of bacteria resistant to most antibiotics is spreading worldwide, scientists warned yesterday.
Patients who have travelled to India for treatment should be screened for infection before receiving medical care on returning to their home countries, they said.
In an online article in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, Johann Pitout from the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Calgary called for close monitoring and surveillance to avoid an “emerging public health threat” likely to add significantly to the burden of treatment costs.
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