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Attacks Southern California

Resistant to antibiotics and high mortality risk is the bacteria that researchers from the Department of Public Health in Los Angeles have found in hospitals County.

is known as CRKP (carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae), an infectious organism that can cause diseases like pneumonia and meningitis.

"is a bacteria difficult to treat and which should be considered hazardous," he said Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the Department of Public Health in the county.

However, he clarified, is no reason to panic and stop visiting the hospitals.

The pathogen, said in a statement the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) is resistant to most antibiotics and can cause death of large numbers of those infected.

Epidemiologist Dawn Terashita, who led the study and as part of the Disease Control Unit of the Department of Public Health, said it detected 356 cases of CRKP.

42% of them said, in new hospital which treats patients from long-term stay, 6% in nursing homes and 53% in general hospitals.

Since the bacteria was discovered in 2001, this is the first time the CRKP bacteria is found in the West Coast. Epidemiologists

will be analyzing this situation the SHEA annual convention to be held from 1 to 4 April in Dallas, Texas, because this bacteria was assumed he was contained and limited to the East Coast.

"If we stop this bacteria, we know where to start," he said in the statement of Dr. Arjun Srinivasan SHEA, infection prevention director of the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Www.elpayolero.com