Maximizing Antimicrobial Efficacy, Minimizing Antimicrobial Resistance: A Paradigm for the New Millennium

Antimicrobial resistance: a new beginning and the need for action.

Antimicrobial Resistance

1. Appreciate the implications of antibiotic resistance. 2. Understand the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance. 3. Understand which factors contribute to the emergence of antibiotic resistance. 4. Understand the important role of the pharmacist in the era of antibiotic resistance.

Antimicrobial resistance.

548 This symposium highlights selected topics in antimicro-bial resistance: community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, malaria, reducing inappropriate antimicrobial drug prescribing for outpatient respiratory infections, and addressing the human health impact of antimicrobial drug use in food animals. Dr. Timothy Naimi discussed community-acquired methicillin-resistant Stap...

Antimicrobial resistance.

434 more orders of magnitude (8,10). In spite of this concentration method, the success rate in EM diagnostics using swab specimens has declined to <10%, while viral agents continue to be identified in >60% of lesions in submitted aspirates. Because concentration methods are not always available, and in view of the sample problems identified by Marshall (3), we reviewed , in Winnipeg, whether c...

Antimicrobial resistance

www.smj.org.sa Saudi Med J 2015; Vol. 36 (1) doi: 10.15537/smj.2015.1.10362 A resistance (AR) is a growing public health threat of broad concern to countries and multiple sectors.1 According to Nathan and Cars,2 Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey sounded the first warning regarding AR during their 1945 Nobel Prize for the discovery of penicillin. Serious infections caused by multi-drug and pan...