the risk is higher if you are in a hospital for a long time or if you are in a nursing home, and patients who are in intensive care are much more likely to get a C. auris infection.
The risk of picking up an infection is also higher if you have been on antibiotics a lot, because the drugs also destroy good bacteria that can stop C. auris getting in.
🌐Researchers are looking at something called phages, a kind of virus that scientists say act as a ‘natural predator’ to bacteria, to see if they can help battle the #superbugs that are increasingly resistant to antibiotics.
Britain has now recorded four ceftriaxone-resistant gonorrhoea infections in three months, after a man from London in his 20s was diagnosed with a ceftriaxone-resistant infection in November.
Cases of the mutant strain resistant to ceftriaxone have been rising in the Asia-Pacific region.
The UKHSA raised the alarm in 2018 after a British man was found to have a gonorrhoea infection resistant to both ceftriaxone and azithromycin.
They said the man was having regular sex with a woman in the UK, but became infected with the strain after a one-off encounter with a woman in South East Asia.
The patient was treated with a third antibiotic — ertapenem — before the case was cleared.