A report by Gavi, a vaccine research company, has revealed that newborn babies in Nigeria are born with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
The report stated that mothers and babies younger than one week already have Colistin-resistant bacteria present in their bodies, despite not being treated with Colistin.
According to the report, researchers took 4,907 samples from mothers and babies in Kano and Abuja between 2015 and 2017 and found that 1% of samples had genes conferring Colistin resistance, across 41 mothers and eight babies.
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