Infectious Disease

Drug-resistant bacterial infections on rise in Brooklyn

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 10th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Bacterial pathogens resistant to antimicrobial drugs are becoming increasingly prevalent in Brooklyn hospitals, researchers in New York warn.

"Carbapenems are important agents for treating nosocomial gram-negative infections," according to David Landman and colleagues at the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center and the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn.

Carbapenem-resistant strains of Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa are responsible for a rising proportion of Brooklyn infections, Landman and coauthors found.

The researchers...

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