In the United States found “supermikrob” that is resistant to the most powerful antibiotics – TASS

WASHINGTON, 27 May. / Corr. Tass Shitov /. American doctors have discovered for the first time in the US “supermikroba”, is resistant to the most powerful antibiotics. As reported on Thursday, the newspaper The Washington Post, we are talking about one of the species Escherichia coli, are not amenable to antibiotic colistin.

No reason to panic

found it was in the body of 49-year-old women in Pennsylvania. According to the newspaper, US officials dealing with medicine, “argue that in itself, this case is not a reason to panic.” In this patient’s disease can be treated with other antibiotics, but “researchers fear that antibiotic resistance gene, discovered in the bacterium can spread to other species of bacteria already resistant to other antibiotics”.

According to the publication “colistin – an antibiotic of last resort for particularly dangerous types” supermikrobov “, including a family of bacteria known as” resistant to carbapenems (class of antibiotics -. Note Tass.) Enterobacteriaceae “and referred to specialists” bacteriological nightmare In some cases, these “”. ” supermikroby “kill up to half of infected patients. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States consider them among the most immediate threats to public health, “- the newspaper notes

on the case report, discovered in Pennsylvania, published on Thursday in the scientific Journal of the American Society for Microbiology Antimicrobial Agents. and Chemotherapy. The authors state that their findings “heralds the emergence of bacteria having a truly all-out resistance to drugs”.

American bacterium

Journal Natiomal Geographic in profile blog on his website said, in Pennsylvania to identify dangerous microorganism managed to military doctors from the army Institute. Walter Reed because of their existing system of a targeted search of such dangerous microbes.

According to the publication, a patient in the previous five months did not go outside the United States, therefore, she discovered a bacterium with a dangerous resistance gene to colistin, most likely, of American origin.

The blog also reported that the same gene is dangerous for the first time in the US was discovered in bacteria in a sample of meat. The sample was taken earlier in the porcine intestine in the targeted antibiotic research. Official statement of the Ministry of Agriculture of the USA, according to Natiomal Geographic, should be followed in the near future.