Showing posts with label Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase E-coli Britain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase E-coli Britain. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 September 2007

Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase(ESBL)

This is drug-resistance strain of E-coli.

10-14% of those infected will die within 30 days.

Up to 4,000 a year may be dieing in Britain from this infection.

There are possibly 30,000 cases a year in Britain.

ESBL has been ound in many imported chickens.