Drug resistance

Briefs, February 17, 2013

17 Feb 2013

A naked woman's body was found yesterday beneath a Cotai Water Jet ferry just off West Kowloon. A staff member on the catamaran called police at about 8am telling them a human leg was being sucked...

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No new cases of superbug VRE, says Caritas Medical Centre

4 Feb 2013

The Caritas Medical Centre had been battling to rid its wards of VRE, or vancomycin-resistant enterococci. It had found more than 100 carriers of the superbug.

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Occurrence of multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis grows

3 Dec 2012

Those fighting tuberculosis (TB) say it is better not to treat the disease than to treat it badly, because doing so just produces more powerful, drug-resistant bacteria, making the world's second-...

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Superbug cases rise fourfold in Hong Kong

17 Nov 2012

Cases of the deadly drug-resistant superbug NDM-1 quadrupled in Hong Kong this year, rising from three to 12.

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Hong Kong has right conditions for outbreaks of drug-resistant superbugs

4 Nov 2012

In August, Princess Margaret Hospital reported the second case of the New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1) Enterobacteriaceae, a lengthy name for a microbe that can simply be called a superbug...

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