75 people have already been infected with the multiresistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria (OXA48), mostly in the Nice University Hospital. It is the most important contamination by resistant enterobacteria.
While an epidemic of “Clostridium difficile 027 has been affecting the Provence-Alpes-Côtes-d’Azur region since March, infecting at least 41 elderly people and even being suspected of being the cause of the death of 3 people, another bacterium seems to have its own in the same region. It is “Klebsiella pneumoniae multiresistant” (OXA48) which was first reported on October 2, 2012 by the CHU de Nice. This bacterium is said to be ” multiresistant “because it resists the action of antibiotics.
According to the’Regional health agency of the PACA region (ARS), “to date, more than 75 people have been affected by this germ, which makes this contamination the most important of all the episodes of resistant enterobacteria identified. in France.”
More seriously, the Agency adds that among these people, “19 are deceased”, specifying nevertheless that one cannot “attribute their death directly to Klebsiella pneumoniae, most of these patients suffering from multiple pathologies and most also having simply carried the bacteria ”(and not infected with the bacteria).
Still according to the ARS, the main source of infection is located in the Nice University Hospital: 58 people have been colonized or infected by the bacteria since the start of the epidemic and 38 have been hospitalized in the medical-surgical intensive care unit. of the Saint-Roch hospital (Nice). The contamination also affected several health establishments in Var and Bouches-du-Rhône. As of September 30, 2013, 11 people were still hospitalized at the Nice University Hospital, including 3 in medico-surgical intensive care at Saint-Roch hospital and 8 other people in 4 other CHU departments.
.
