In the Jeroen Bosch Hospital in Den Bosch for another six patients found to be infected with the klebsiella intestinal bacteria. Which can cause inflammation and weakening people's immune to most antibiotics.
On Monday it was announced last week an infection klebsiella been detected in eight patients. Then the hospital decided to check all 760 patients. About half has been studied and from that group came the six new infections emerged.
Because of the new discovery, the hospital in Den Bosch several wards closed. Patients should be included are called that they can not come.
Abroad
Patients infected with klebsiella are almost always moments before been in a foreign hospital or traveling in countries such as South East Asia. The first patient in the Jeroen Bosch Hospital in whom the bacterium was discovered, has not been recently abroad.Examined where he is or has become infected.
Earlier this year, an infection of the intestinal bacteria found in patients in the Amphia Hospital in Breda and the University Medical Centre Groningen. Also, the two patients had not been shortly before the discovery abroad.
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