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Bug resistant to antibiotics enters UK

(World health - EU Monitor 13/08/2009)

Health experts are warning that a new bug which is resistant to antibiotics has been brought into the UK by patients treated abroad. The new strains of bacteria, called Enterobacteriaceae, have been identified in UK hospital patients, "a significant proportion of whom had received medical treatment abroad", according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA). The HPA said that one strain - called NDM-1 (New Delhi Metallo-1) - is "swiftly emerging".

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