Article
Suppression of Emergence of Resistance in Pathogenic Bacteria: Keeping Our Powder Dry, Part 1.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 28 Dec 2015
Drusano G L, Louie Arnold, MacGowan Alasdair, Hope William
Abstract excerpt
We are in a crisis of bacterial resistance. For economic reasons, most pharmaceutical companies are abandoning antimicrobial discovery efforts, while, in health care itself, infection control and antibiotic stewardship programs have generally failed to prevent the spread of drug-resistant bacteria. At this point, what can be done? The first step has been taken. Governments and international bodies have declared...
Topics
- Animals
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacteria
- Bacterial Infections
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Humans
- Mutation
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Time Factors