Researchers from Northern Arizona University published a study showing the health risks of multi-drug-resistant bacteria.
Benjamin Koch, a senior research scientist at NAU, looked at what would happen if a pathogen were to gain resistance to all known antibiotics. He, along with other researchers, modeled the impact of a hypothetical strain of E. coli bacteria.
They found that sepsis deaths increased by 18 to 46 times just five years after the introduction of such a strain.
“This is a public health problem that has been worsening and is expected to continue worsening as bacteria become resistant to more and more kinds of antibiotics," he said.
Koch says this shows the need for more solutions.
“I think going forward, we need a combination of things, you know, to better prevent infections. We need to minimize inappropriate antibiotic use, both in farming and in humans and veterinary medicine," he said.
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Gabriela Ramírez is an investigative reporter who reported the story for the Spanish-language news outlet Conecta Arizona with a grant funded by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism National Fellowship.
