But patient advocates said they wanted guarantees ...

"We believe that this increase," Dr. Jonathan E. Fielding, public health, district chief, said the infections. County Health Department the necessary conditions to report infections, since June 1, 2010, Terashita and analyzed reports on December 31, 2010, submitted by 52 hospitals and regional laboratories. It found 146 infections in eight long-term acute-care hospitals, including an outbreak in one hospital, she said. Another 20 cases have been reported in nursing homes, and the rest in short-term acute-care hospitals. Fielding did not name the objects. District hospitals were run in two patients who test positive strattera 10mg for CRKP this year and 20 last year. The average age of patients who tested positive in the study was 73 Terashita, and more than half were women, she said. She did not learn how many of them were killed or the source of their infection, although 38% were admitted from nursing homes. "We do not know anything to get the patient to the hospital or whether they acquire it in a nursing home before they were taken", Terashita said. Unlike other superbugs such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Staphyococcus (MRSA), CRKP is enterobacterium, relative

Escherichia coli that are resistant to most antibiotics except colistin, a drug so powerful it can lead to kidney damage. Studies in the U.S. and Israel have shown that about 40% of infected patients die. "This is a very serious infection, it is extremely difficult because treatment options are very limited," said Dr. Arjun Srinivasan of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, which still does not require the reporting and tracking of infections. Jim Lott, executive vice president of Hospital Assn. Southern California, said the hospital contained the same drug-resistant bacteria, and he was not concerned that CRKP could spread within and outside medical institutions. But patient advocates said they wanted assurances that the hospital staff will do more to stop the spread of CRKP and other dangerous bacteria. "You want to be sure that there is a strategy in place to keep it so that it does not fall into the community," said Lisa McGiffert, manager of Texas non-profit project patients safe in the Union consumers. .