Via Thanh Nien Daily, a report dated August 13: Vietnam discovers superbugs amid world concern. Excerpt:
As the world frets over a new enzyme capable of making bacterial strains resistant to most antibiotics, Vietnam’s experts announced Thursday that they have discovered several "superbug" strains here.
The multi-drug resistance has mostly been discovered in “gram-negative” gut bugs, according to Nguyen Trung Cap, vice chief of emergency department at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
Vietnam has yet to conduct any research on antibiotic resistant bacteria, so experts here can’t say if the recorded superbugs carry the troublesome NDM-1 gene (also known as New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamose), Cap said.
Still, Cap warned that it is very likely that the new superbugs will enter Vietnam considering these bacteria are highly transmissible through person to person contact.
