ATLANTA - insects of hate? Fear of germs? Researchers report an alarming combination: bugs carrying a "superbug" staph Canadian scientists detected in three patients of the Hospital of a Vancouver neighbourhood bedbugs aureus drug-resistant oppressed.
Bugs have not been able to spread disease, and there is no clear evidence that the five bugs on the patients or their belongings spread the germ of MRSA that they carried or a second less dangerous drug-resistant bacteria.
However, bugs can cause itching which can lead to scrape off excess. That can cause breaks in the skin which make them more vulnerable to these germs, noted Dr. Marc Romney, one of the authors of the study.
The study is small and very preliminary. "But this is an intriguing conclusion" should be more research, said Romney, medical microbiologist at the Hospital St. Paul to Vancouver.
The hospital is closest to the poor district of Downtown Eastside near the waterfront of the city. Romney said that he and his colleagues have made research after seeing a simultaneous boom tacks and cases of MRSA in the neighbourhood.
Five bugs have been squashed and analyzed. Or resistant to Methicillin Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA was found on three bugs. MRSA is resistant to many types of common antibiotics and can be fatal if it gets through the skin and into the bloodstream.
Two bugs had vre or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium, a less dangerous form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Germs are often seen in hospitals and experts were much more concerned by the nurses and other health workers spread bacteria that insects.
It is not clear if bacteria is causing bugs or if bugs picked up it already infected people, said Romney.
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