Antibiotic resistance: UTI, among top 10 causes of death in Singapore, trickier to treat

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Antibiotic resistance: UTI, among top 10 causes of death in S'pore, trickier to treat

SINGAPORE: By all accounts, Sharon’s surgery to remove fibroids earlier this year was a success.

On her part, she is taking steps to ward off such infections. “My Vitamin C level is low, and that makes me more prone to infections, so I have been taking supplements,” she said.MORE COMPLICATED CASES, NUMBERS RISING Medical journal, The Lancet, provides similarly bleak statistics. Research it published last year showed that more than a third of all UTIs caused by E-Coli in Britain were resistant to “key antibiotics”.

The numbers showed that 2 per cent of total deaths were caused by UTI each year - more than 400 people.

 

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