Infectious disease doctors are sounding the alarm after a new CDC report found that drug-resistant "nightmare bacteria" infections rose drastically in the U.S. between 2019 and 2023.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention article was published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

What are NDM bacteria?

What we know:

In recent years, the CDC has drawn attention to " nightmare bacteria " resistant to a wide range of antibiotics. That includes carbapenems, a class of antibiotics considered a last resort for treatment of serious infections.

Bacteria that are difficult to treat due to the so-called NDM gene primarily drove the increase in infections, the report found.

Only two antibiotics work against those infections, and the drugs are expensive and must be administere

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