Antimicrobial (Drug) Resistance

Drug Resistance in Antimicrobial Therapy

Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Peru

To the Editor: In Latin American countries, rates of antimicrobial drug resistance among bacterial pathogens are high. Data on these rates in Peru are incomplete (1), and no institution in Peru has participated in multinational surveillance studies (2– 4). To document the antimicrobial drug resistance profi le of key pathogens, we organized a surveillance network of clinical laboratories from 9...

Trends in antimicrobial-drug resistance in Japan.

Multidrug resistance in gram-positive bacteria has become common worldwide. In Japan until recently, gram-negative bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Serratia marcescens were controlled by carbapenems, fluoroquinolones, and aminoglycosides. However, several of these microorganisms have recently developed resistance against many antimicrobial drugs.

Legal issues associated with antimicrobial drug resistance.

An effective public health strategy against the development of antimicrobial drug resistance needs to be informed by legal as well as scientific analysis. This article describes some legal issues arising from current efforts against antimicrobial resistance and underscores the interdependence between law and public health in these efforts.

Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Corynebacterium diphtheriae mitis

2010 had distinct random amplifi ed patterns that differed from those generated from isolates A–G (Figure). A previous study in Taiwan showed that the incidence (no. cases/100,000 inpatients and outpatients) of all pulmonary disease caused by NTM increased signifi cantly from 2.7 (1.26) in 2000 to 10.2 (7.94) in 2008 (6). The most common organism in localized pulmonary infection and disseminate...