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Statewide assessment in Maryland reveals widespread colonization of two multidrug-resistant bacteria in mechanically ventilated patients, raising alarm bells.
Scientists at MIT and McMaster University have utilised artificial intelligence (AI) to identify a new antibiotic with the potential to combat drug-resistant infections caused by Acinetobacter baumannii, a bacterium commonly found in hospital settings.
Work is underway into how science can stop the superbug <em>A. baumanniii </em>after research exposes a weak link in the deadly but poorly understood pathogen.
Hospitals have strict hygiene and sanitation protocols to protect patients from bacteria that rarely sicken healthy people but can be deadly for vulnerable patients already hospitalized with serious illnesses. Nearly 100,000 people die every year in U.S. hospitals of infections they develop after being admitted. But despite intense infection-control efforts, new strains of bacteria keep on emerging, seemingly out of nowhere, to sicken people in hospitals worldwide.