Focus: Infection Control

Study links superbug to antibiotic overuse rather than dirty hospitals

Scientists have found overuse of the drugs was the main cause of a serious stomach bug outbreak that spread through NHS hospitals


Study links superbug to antibiotic overuse rather than dirty hospitals, according to an article on the Mirror website.

 

Scientists have found overuse of the drugs was the main cause of a serious stomach bug outbreak that spread through NHS hospitals.

 

Limiting antibiotics rather than a deep cleaning program eventually brought the epidemic under control, the research found.

 

Cutting back on ciprofloxacin and related antibiotics led to an 80% fall in drug-resistant C. diff infections in the UK.

 

 

Read the article.

 

 



February 3, 2017


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