• Question: What is the most dangerous type of bacteria?

    Asked by Tamsin to Abid, Donna, Sanjib, Thomas, Avril on 14 Jun 2017.
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      Donna Johnson answered on 14 Jun 2017:

      Probably MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus). It’s difficult to treat because of its antibiotic resistance, it can infect multiple sites on/in the body and can have quite serious effects.It can result in death, either as a single infection or as a consequence of an already sick person becoming infected with it in hospital.

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      Sanjib Bhakta answered on 14 Jun 2017:

      No doubt, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. around 10 millions new infections, 2 million dealths per year takes more lives than any other bacteria world wide! Above all, extremely drug resistant form of TB has virtually NO cure!! Normally TB treatment takes a six months of cocktail of 4 antibiotics, whereas MDR (multi drug resistant) form of TB treatment can be up to two years with thousands of injections…a dreadful bacterial disease.

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      Avril Tucker answered on 19 Jun 2017:

      I’d probably say Clostridium difficile. It causes diarrhoea, mega colon and death if not treated by antibiotics. The is also a high spread risk as it is a spore forming bacteria.

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