In wastewater there are new smertelnaya bacteria

Humanity is on the brink of Armageddon, when new bacteria suddenly impotent all existing antibiotics. This was announced by the head of the research group at the University of Warwick in the UK, Professor Elizabeth Wellington.





A group of scientists headed by Elizabeth tested the samples from the bottom of the river Sow and discovered an unknown bacterium that is able to survive exposure to the most modern antibiotics. According to the British newspaper The Independent, doctors are concerned about the possibility of a new incurable infections. No joke, but this problem has started to haunt the UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who considers the possible developments in such a way that modern medicine will prove to be as powerless in the face of new infections, as medieval medicine was powerless in the face of already become curable diseases.

About this problem, everyone should know immunologist at the children's clinic and bring to the attention of parents the need for careful hygiene of children from the early years of life. Experts suggest a new kind of bacteria was formed in wastewater treatment plants, where sewage is drained of water the local plant. Apparently, in tanks of this plant were created favourable conditions for mutations of microorganisms and the transfer of each other's ability to resist strong antibiotics.

The study showed, many of the microbes in the river Sow has been through a genetic mutation that made them resistant to the effects of drugs-cephalosporins – the newest antibiotics widely used to treat infections of the blood, meningitis, and other nosocomial infections. As you know, river water irrigated the fields, which increases the risk of proliferation of bacteria-mutants. Also in the river people bathe.

 

Source: scienceblog.ru