Report on superbugs from Mexico highlights medical tourism dangers

  24 May 2019

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and seven state health departments today provided new details on 12 US patients who contracted Verona integron–encoded metallo-beta-lactamase–producing carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (VIM-CRPA) tied to medical procedures in Mexico—and how the infections could pose a risk to US hospitals.

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