ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE IN HOSPITALS IN INDONESIA: ANTIBIOTIC USE AND ASSOCIATED COSTSAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) reveals a serious, worldwide threat to public health. One of the causes is inappropriate antibiotic (AB) therapy in health services. It leads to patients' difficulty healing, needs longer...
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Although antibiotics have lost much of their glamour due to the increasing antimicrobial resistance of microorganisms, this sense of power probably still underlies antibiotic prescription. Thus, changing prescribing habits in hospitals can be a challenge. Unfortunately, a rather naive approach to changing...
Unlike the open communities it should be, and in some countries like the Netherlands [4] has been, possible to control the spread of resistance in hospitals. In accord with mathematical models [5], the frequency of colonization and infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals can ...
"Antibiotic use dropped by 40 percent by the end of last year," Xiao said, citing the national surveillance network of drug use linking large hospitals nationwide. A recent global review by the UK's Lord Jim O'Neill on anti-microbial resistance estimates that by 2050 antibiotic resistance coul...
aureus isolates with acquired resistance to methicillin (i.e. MRSA). Multidrug-resistant (MDR) MRSA isolates were soon recovered from other European countries and later from Japan, Australia and the USA and have become widespread in hospitals in most parts of the world and are now spreading ...
Perhaps the single biggest public health threat today is antibiotic resistance.14 An example is gonorrhea, which was treatable by penicillin in the 1970s, but is becoming resistant even to ceftriaxone, a third generation oral cephalosporins. Gram-negative infections are becoming untreatable due to ...
Understanding theplasmidexchange and when the plasmids get into the pathogens that infect our patients, she says, could help hospitals improve their monitoring of resistance-conferring genes: "In the big picture, the concern is the spread of these resistant organisms worldwide and some regions of ...
Antibiotic resistance is an international reality whose solution includes better educating physicians about using bacteria-fighting tools, says an infectious disease physician. "The big problem is theoveruse of antibioticsin hospitals and communities because not only can they lead toside effectslike rashes...
Each year, an estimated 2.8 million people in the U.S. develop infections that are resistant to antibiotics, resulting in the deaths of more than 35,000 people. Resistance also makes it more difficult to care for people with chronic diseases. Some people need medical treatments likechemotherapy...