A two-and-a-half-year study by the South Asian Liver Institute has found alarming levels of multi-drug resistant bacterial infections among liver transplant patients in a semi-rural town, with 94 per cent of cultures resistant to first- and second-line antibiotics

Hyderabad: Liver surgeons from Hyderabad-based South Asian Liver Institute, who conducted a retrospective study spanning two-and-a-half years in 67 liver surgery patients in a semi-rural tier 2 town, found a 24 per cent incidence of bacterial infections, with 16 cases from 46 liver transplant recipients.

All the patients (out of 16 patients) were resistant to antibiotics. Worryingly, 15 of the 16 positive bacteria (94 percent) were resistant to first and second-line antibiotics. A smaller percentage were resistant to third-lin

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