May 26, 2016
By Lena H. Sun and Brady Dennis
For the first time, (click here) researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort, an alarming development that the top U.S. public health official says could signal "the end of the road" for antibiotics.
The antibiotic-resistant strain was found last month in the urine of a 49-year-old Pennsylvania woman. Defense Department researchers determined that she carried a strain of E. coli resistant to the antibiotic colistin, according to a study published Thursday in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology. The authors wrote that the discovery "heralds the emergence of a truly pan-drug resistant bacteria."...
One of the descriptions of this patient is that she was never outside the USA. Was someone she knows outside the USA? It is an important question; either she contacted someone who had been outside the USA or she somehow spawned this bacteria or it is in the community somewhere.
Escherichia coli Harboring mcr-1 and blaCTX-M (click here) on a Novel IncF Plasmid: First report of 2 mcr-1 in the USA
E. coli (click here) is found in the human bowel. It is a bacteria that lives in the human intestine.
Patients that have contracted this bacteria needs to be asked if they were talking any "Probiotic" product.
One of the descriptions of this patient is that she was never outside the USA. Was someone she knows outside the USA? It is an important question; either she contacted someone who had been outside the USA or she somehow spawned this bacteria or it is in the community somewhere.
Escherichia coli Harboring mcr-1 and blaCTX-M (click here) on a Novel IncF Plasmid: First report of 2 mcr-1 in the USA
E. coli (click here) is found in the human bowel. It is a bacteria that lives in the human intestine.
Patients that have contracted this bacteria needs to be asked if they were talking any "Probiotic" product.
