PETALING JAYA: One third to half of intensive care unit (ICU) patients infected with superbugs face death due to antibiotics resistance, said University of Malaya’s Medicine Faculty dean and Medicine and Infectious Diseases Professor Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman (pic).
“We have antibiotics that treat serious infections but some of these don’t work on superbugs. This is alarming,” she said.
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