Book chapter
Overview of Molecular Diagnostics in Multiple‐Drug‐Resistant Organism Prevention: Focus on Multiple‐Drug‐Resistant Gram‐Negative Bacterial Organisms
Molecular Microbiology, pp.197-211
ASM Press
04/28/2016
DOI: 10.1128/9781555819071.ch17
Abstract
The combination of increasing rates of antibiotic resistance and the decreasing pace of new antibiotic development has become an urgent public health crisis (1). Multiple‐drug‐resistant bacterial organisms (MDROs) have now become common causes of health care‐associated infection (HAI), the most prevalent being methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin‐resistant Enterococcus (VRE), and a variety of multiple‐drug‐resistant Gram‐negative rods (MDR‐GNRs; organisms that are resistant to most, if not all, available antibiotic classes through myriad mechanisms, including production of β‐lactamases with increasingly broad activity) (2–4).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Overview of Molecular Diagnostics in Multiple‐Drug‐Resistant Organism Prevention: Focus on Multiple‐Drug‐Resistant Gram‐Negative Bacterial Organisms
- Creators
- Kaede V SullivanDaniel J Diekema
- Contributors
- David H Persing (Editor)Fred C Tenover (Editor)Randall T Hayden (Editor)Margareta Ieven (Editor)Melissa B Miller (Editor)Frederick S Nolte (Editor)Yi-Wei Tang (Editor)Alex Belkum (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Molecular Microbiology, pp.197-211
- Publisher
- ASM Press; Washington, DC, USA
- DOI
- 10.1128/9781555819071.ch17
- Number of pages
- 15
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/28/2016
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Pathology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984001241302771
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