Story on antibiotic by Loh Fong Fong-Art Chen/The Star. 15 May 2014.
KUALA LUMPUR: Antibiotics are becoming less effective because bacteria are mutating and the Health Ministry is concerned that patients infected with these superbugs could die or at the least be in hospital for a long time.
The ministry’s National Surveillance on Antibiotic Resistance report showed an increasing resistance by acinetobacter baumanii to the antibiotic meropenem, from 47.7% in 2007 to 58.3% last year.
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