Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs in the 21st Century — A Clinical Super-Challenge

Drs. Cesar Arias and Barbara Murray write that we have arrived at a point as frightening as the preantibiotic era: for patients infected with multidrug-resistant bacteria, there is no magic bullet. In March 1942, a 33-year-old woman lay dying of streptococcal sepsis in a New Haven, Connecticut, hosp...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The New England journal of medicine Jg. 360; H. 5; S. 439 - 443
Hauptverfasser:	Arias, Cesar A, Murray, Barbara E
Format:	Journal Article
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	United States Massachusetts Medical Society 29.01.2009
Schlagworte:	Antibiotics Drug resistance Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial - genetics Enterococcus faecium - drug effects Enterococcus faecium - pathogenicity Gram-Negative Bacteria - pathogenicity Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections - drug therapy Hospitals Humans Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - genetics Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - pathogenicity Mutation Staphylococcus infections Vancomycin Resistance - genetics United States > US
ISSN:	0028-4793, 1533-4406, 1533-4406
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
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