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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Routine cycling of antimicrobial agents may protect patients
July 30th, 2003
The routine cycling of antimicrobial agents may be helpful as an infection-control measure. According to published research from the United States, "Antimicrobial cycling is the deliberate, scheduled removal and substitution of specific antimicrobials or classes of antimicrobials within an institutional environment (either hospital-wide or confined to specific units) to avoid or reverse the development of antimicrobial resistance." "True antimicrobial cycling requires a return to the antimicrobial(s) that were first used," said Scott K. Fridkin at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. "Testing of the hypothesis that cycling will...
Source: Biotech Week (2003-07-30)
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