Drug Resistance
Bacterial pathogen susceptibility to carbapenems and other broad-spectrum agents monitored
Published in Immunotherapy Weekly, June 28th, 2006
"The Meropenem Yearly Susceptibility Test Information Collection Program is a global, longitudinal resistance surveillance network of more than 100 medical centers worldwide monitoring the susceptibility of bacterial pathogens to carbapenems and other broad-spectrum agents.
"Between 1999 and 2004, a total of 10-16 U.S. medical centers referred up to 200 nonduplicate isolates from clinical infections to a central processing laboratory," wrote investigators in England.
According to the authors, "Over this 6-year period, the...
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Source: Immunotherapy Weekly (2006-06-28)
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