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| Wednesday, 21 June 2006 10:22 | | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk
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Up to 52 million people worldwide could be carrying the MRSA superbug, scientists have warned.
MRSA (meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is the most commonly identified antibiotic resistant pathogen in many parts of the world and is regularly found in Europe, north and south America, north Africa, the middle East, and east Asia.
Scientists from the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands published their findings in the Lancet.
Professor Hajo Grundmann, scientific co-ordinator of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System, said rates of MRSA were beginning to rise in Scandinavia and the Netherlands, where levels had been low.
"Conservative estimates based on either Dutch or United States prevalence figures predict that between two million and 52 million carry MRSA worldwide," he said.
Prof Grundmann said a "fitter" strain of the superbug had evolved that could prove even more resistant to treatment.
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