{"id":28608,"date":"2019-01-10T21:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28608"},"modified":"2019-01-10T21:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T21:22:27","slug":"surgeries-in-mexico-linked-to-antibiotic-resistant-infections-in-us-cdc-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28608","title":{"rendered":"Surgeries in Mexico linked to antibiotic-resistant infections in US, CDC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Nearly a dozen<strong> <\/strong>Americans who had surgery in Tijuana, Mexico, have returned home with dangerous antibiotic-resistant infections, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/travel\/notices\/alert\/drug-resistant-infections-mexico\" target=\"_blank\">said Wednesday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">All of the travelers diagnosed with the life-threatening bacteria, carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa or CRPA, had undergone invasive medical procedures. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Infections caused by this particular drug-resistant Pseudomonas are rare in the United States and difficult to treat,&#8221; the CDC said. Patients typically require long and &#8220;complex antibacterial drug combinations and courses&#8221; to defeat the infection.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Nearly a dozen Americans who had surgery in Tijuana, Mexico, have returned home with dangerous antibiotic-resistant infections, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. All of the travelers diagnosed with the life-threatening bacteria, carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa or CRPA, had undergone invasive medical procedures. &#8220;Infections caused by this particular drug-resistant Pseudomonas are rare&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}