Antibiotic Resistance

"Bad bugs" causing respiratory infections increasingly resistant to antibiotics

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 16th, 2004

Between 1995 and 2003, the major "bad bugs" causing respiratory infections in hospitals have grown increasingly resistant to commonly prescribed antibiotics, according to data from the Antimicrobial Resistance Management (ARM) Program.

The sharpest decline was between 1995 and 1998. One exception: Streptococcus pneumoniae, which actually became less resistant to the antibiotics cefuroxime (a second-generation cephalosporin) and ceftriaxone (a third-generation cephalosporin).

Approximately 2 million people acquire bacterial infections in U.S. hospitals each year and 90,000 die. Approximately 70% of those infections are resistant to at least one...

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2004-11-16)

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