Nosocomial Infection

Health Officials Take Steps to Control Drug-Resistant Bacterium

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 2nd, 1998

Ohio state health officials are hoping to control a potentially fatal bacterium before its resistance to an often-used antibiotic spreads to even deadlier organisms.

The Ohio Department of Health made infection by the bacterium Enterococcus sp. a reportable disease in April 1996 to try to control outbreaks. Between October 1996 and May 1997, hospitals statewide reported 780 cases.

Enterococcus is resistant to the drug vancomycin - medicine's last defense in treating many infections, The Columbus Dispatch reported January 18, 1998.

"This bacterium is progressing along a road you would rather not travel," said Dr....

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