It makes reference to a report "Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2013" from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued on September 16, 2013 that highlights the urgency of taking action on dealing with antibiotic resistance. It mentions categories of ...
(it had previously estimated illnesses and deaths from some families of organisms or types of drug resistance, but those numbers were never gathered in one place.) it also represents the first time the cdc has ranked resistant organisms by how much and how imminent a threat they pose, using ...
The CDC lists MRSA as a "serious" threat.2. Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniaeCurrent/Emerging Resistant Bacteria Infection Types Resistance Notes Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae S. pneumoniae causes pneumococcal disease. The most common bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), a...
Gram-negative infections are becoming untreatable due to resistance elements including extended spectrum β-lactamases and Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase produced by Enterobacteriaciae. The CDC has categorized the top 18 drug-resistant threats to the United States based on the specific level of concern...
The article discusses the report "Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2013," released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report shows the dangers posed by antibiotic-resistant organisms in the U.S. It noted that more than two million people beco...
(HealthDay)—The burden and threats posed by antibiotic resistance infections are discussed in a report published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Noting thatantibiotic resistanceis a worldwide problem, researchers from the CDC discuss the burden and threat of antibiotic resis...
A unique, protective cell envelope contributes to the broad drug resistance of the nosocomial pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii. Here we use transposon insertion sequencing to identify A. baumannii mutants displaying altered susceptibility to a panel of d
Our main therapeutic line of defense against invading pathogenic bacteria has been progressively weakened by antibiotic resistance. Based on reports by the CDC and the WHO, bacterial antibiotic resistance is a major threat to human health. TheCDC’s 2019 AR Threats Reportshowed that in the USA mic...
http://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/threat-report-2013/. Accessed April 11, 2016. 2. Linder JA. Editorial commentary: antibiotics for treatment of acute respiratory tract infections: decreasing benefit, increasing risk, and the irrelevance of antimicrobial resistance. Clin Infect Dis. 2008;47(6):...
Pointing out that every year more than two million people in the United States get infections resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die as a result, a new report issued this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls