Separately, a small number of patients were found to have stenotrophomonas maltophilia infections - another bacteria that can ...

A cancer ward at a Scottish hospital has been closed after an outbreak of an illness linked to mould and another that is ...

Patients in a cancer ward are to be moved after cases of an infection linked to mould were found. NHS Ayrshire & Arran said ...

He said there was evidence that some potentially deadly bacteria that originate in water, such as Stenotrophomonas, could be resistant to certain antibiotics. He said that even if prescribed drugs ...

Milly Main, a 10-year-old who was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2012, died in 2017 after contracting stenotrophomonas at the campus. A 10-year-old boy and a 73-year-old woman also died after ...

NHS Ayrshire and Arran is to transfer cancer patients after a number of people were treated for infections, including one linked to mould.

Background The use of quinolone prophylaxis in high-risk neutropenic patients is considered standard of care but the development of resistance is a concern. Previous studies have focused mainly on ...

Separately, a small number of patients were found to have stenotrophomonas maltophilia infections - another bacteria that can be found in hospitals and can be difficult to treat. The health board ...

A senior medical director has told an inquiry there is no direct evidence that unusual infections in child cancer patients ...

Milly Main, a 10-year-old who was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2012, died in 2017 after contracting stenotrophomonas at the ...