The alert has been issued: the CHU de Nice and certain retirement homes in Marseille have been affected by mutant bacteria, or organisms that have adapted to survive in aseptic environments such as, for example, hospitals. In Marseille, an epidemic of Clostridium difficile would have affected around 41 elderly people and would be the cause of the death of three people. In Nice, the bacterium is called Klebsiella pneumoniae. Resistant to antibiotics, it would have infected more than 75 people, “which makes this contamination the most important of all the episodes of resistant enterobacteria identified in France”, according to the Regional Health Agency of the PACA region. .
Even if it is impossible to directly attribute their death to the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae, 19 patients “suffering from multiple pathologies and most also having been simply carriers of the bacterium”, died in Nice, explains the Agency. Moreover, the city hospital was obliged to implement “an exceptional device to contain the epidemic”, adds the site of nice morning. Doctor Olivier Oregioni, a biologist who runs a medical analysis laboratory in the center of Nice, told the daily “to see these particularly resistant bacteria appear in town, which until then had only been found in hospitals. – even, last month I isolated in my laboratory three cases of multidrug-resistant Escherichia Coli. “The contamination would also have affected several health establishments in Var and Bouches-du-Rhône. On September 30, 11 people remained hospitalized at the Nice University Hospital.
