CDC sounds alarm over superbugs in Ukraine that are resistant to 'last-ditch' antibiotics and are beginning to spread across war-torn country's bordersCDC said the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Ukraine is an 'urgent crisis'
Roughly 60 percent of patients had infections resistant to 'last-ditch' antibiotics
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By CAITLIN TILLEY, HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 18:47 EST, 7 December 2023 | UPDATED: 09:35 EST, 8 December 2023
Superbugs for which some of the most powerful antibiotics don't work are growing in Ukraine and spreading beyond the war-torn country's borders.
Hospitals are fighting a rapid rise in drug-resistant infections, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say are 'spread[ing] into Europe.'
Officials said the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Ukraine is an 'urgent crisis' which must be addressed.
Researchers sampled hundreds of Ukrainian patients for infections caught while at the hospital in November and December 2022.
They found that roughly 60 percent of patients had infections resistant to carbapenem antibiotics - which the CDC describes as a last line of defense antibiotic because it is usually so effective.
By comparison, just six percent of samples of similar kinds of infections were resistant to carbapenem antibiotics in an European study through 2017.
The study authors wrote: 'In Ukraine, the confluence of high prewar rates of antimicrobial resistance, an increase in the prevalence of traumatic wounds, and the war-related strain on health care facilities is leading to increased detection of multidrug-resistant organisms with spread into Europe.'
Health officials have been cautioning for years about growing antimicrobial resistance as a result of the ongoing war in Ukraine.
The CDC's European equivalent raised the alarm back in March 2022 that hospitals should isolate and screen patients in Ukraine to preempt organisms resistant to multiple drugs.
Dr Amesh Adalja, an infectious diseases doctor working at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told DailyMail.com: 'Ukraine has been well established to be a reservoir for antibiotic resistant bacteria and it is not surprising that cases are increasing given that a war is occurring there, causing injuries and delaying ability to secure care.
'Similar issues occurred during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — Operation Iraqi Freedom Operation Enduring Freedom— with US soldiers contracting drug resistant infections.'
Dr Adalja added: 'Antimicrobial resistance is a world wide problem that is only increasing — what’s occurring is not specific to Ukraine but another example of it. This phenomenon has been — for decades — an increasing threat to modern medicine.'
Last year, Germany saw infections from drug-resistant bacteria shoot up after March 2022, in connection with refugees from Ukraine.
The largest rise in Germany was for drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae.
In the US, approximately five percent of Klebsiella samples in 2021 were resistant, the CDC found.
In the most recent study in Ukraine, all the Klebsiella samples tested from patients were resistant to carbapenem antibiotics.
In July, American military doctors in Ukraine treating a Ukrainian solider said the patient had been infected by six separate 'extensively drug-resistant bacteria,' including Klebsiella pneumoniae, after he suffered severe burns across more than half his body.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12839243/CDC-superbugs-Ukraine-resistant-antibiotics.html
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