More than 2,890 hospital patients in Canada are infected with a so-called “superbug,” or an antibiotic-resistant organism, at any one time, according to new Canadian research, which also found that most infections were acquired in a health-care facility.
The findings, released Monday and published in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, offer the first comprehensive look at the prevalence of superbug infections in Canadian hospitals.
More than 2,890 hospital patients in Canada are infected with a so-called “superbug,” or an antibiotic-resistant organism, at any one time, according to new Canadian research, which also found that most infections were acquired in a health-care facility.
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