India has found its first cases of a superbug that can lead to blindness, flesh-eating infections and meningitis, according to researchers.
Klebsiella pneumoniae was found in patients by doctors at the Christian Medical College (CMC), in the city of Vellore, over a two-year period, after they were admitted for sepsis.
Researchers found that 27 (31 per cent) of 86 patients treated for sepsis in the hospital had become infected by a strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, that was found to be both resistant to antibiotics and hypervirulent.
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