Report released on antibiotic resistance

Report of the ASM task force on antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae. Report of a study group on bacterial resistance.

Twenty laboratories in England and Scotland took part in 1977 in a survey of antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae. In Str pneumoniae 59 (6.8%) of the 866 strains studied were resistant to tetracycline and three to chloramphenicol, and one strain showed a decreased susceptibility to penicillin. The prevalence of resistance to tetracycline was lower than th...

Impact of antibiotic administrative restrictions on trends in antibiotic resistance.

CONTEXT In March 2001, in response to concerns about increasing resistance to fluoroquinolone (FQ) antibiotics, the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) program limited reimbursement of FQs to ODB beneficiaries defined as high risk or in whom other therapies are not tolerated. OBJECTIVE To analyze the impact of the limited use (LU) policy changes on antibiotic resistance rates in Ontario, focussing on ...

Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic resistance is an ongoing evolutionary process that has been the concern of infectious disease specialists since antibiotic use gained popularity. Antibiotic resistance is not a concern of the public as reflected by their desire for antibiotics whenever illness occurs. Patients can and do pressure their physicians for antibiotics ; 12 million antibiotic prescriptions were filled for u...

Australian hospital morbidity data on antibiotic resistance.

Reports of infections with drug-resistant microorganisms are included in the National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. This database includes data on diagnoses of patients admitted to Australian hospitals, recorded using codes from the Australian version of the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD...