Antibiotic-resistant microbes, considered one of the most dangerous, have led to the greatest increase in hospital-acquired infections.
The number of infections and deaths caused by some of the antibiotic-resistant pathogens in US hospitals increased by 15% in the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. This is in reference to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday, July 22, according to Science magazine.
CDC officials report that up to 29,400 people died due to increased hospital-acquired infections in the US in 2020.
“The reasons for the increase may be the overwork of hospital workers who were forced to be more negligent in sanitary requirements and the lack of personal protective equipment. Such problems at the height of the epidemic are in almost every hospital on the planet where patients with COVID-19 are being treated,” experts said.
In particular, carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter infections increased by 78%. There are 7,500 cases in the US. The germ commonly infects patients on ventilators, such as those hospitalized with COVID-19.
Nosocomial infections (also hospital-acquired, nosocomial) – according to the WHO definition, any clinically manifested diseases of microbial origin that affect a patient during his hospitalization or visit to a medical institution (HCF) for for the purpose of treatment, or after discharge from the hospital.
In most cases, the sources of nosocomial infections are patients or medical personnel who are carriers of bacteria or patients with obliterated and manifest forms of pathology.
It was previously reported that pharmacies in Ukraine will start dispensing prescription antibiotics from August.
Recall that hospitals in Ukraine began to keep records of antibiotics in January 2022.
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