Drug Resistance, Bacterial
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Long-term relapse risk of multibacillary leprosy after completion of 2 years of multiple drug therapy (WHO-MDT) in Cebu, Philippines.

30 Oct 2009 From 1987 to 1994, we enrolled 500 subjects completing 2-year WHO multiple drug therapy (MDT) for multibacillary leprosy in a prospective relapse study. Relapse was defined as new skin lesions and an increase in the bacterial index (BI) > or = 2+ (> ... Read more...

Human health consequences of use of antimicrobial agents in aquaculture.

13 Oct 2009 Intensive use of antimicrobial agents in aquaculture provides a selective pressure creating reservoirs of drug-resistant bacteria and transferable resistance genes in fish pathogens and other bacteria in the aquatic environment. From these ... Read more...

Hospital and societal costs of antimicrobial-resistant infections in a Chicago teaching hospital: implications for antibiotic stewardship.

13 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Organisms resistant to antimicrobials continue to emerge and spread. This study was performed to measure the medical and societal cost attributable to antimicrobial-resistant infection (ARI). METHODS: A sample of high-risk hospitalized ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Drug Resistance, Bacterial'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Long-term relapse risk of multibacillary leprosy after completion of 2 years of multiple drug therapy (WHO-MDT) in Cebu, Philippines. 30 Oct 2009
• [Borrelia burgdorferi--a unique bacterium] 20 Oct 2009
• Human health consequences of use of antimicrobial agents in aquaculture. 13 Oct 2009
• Antibiotic resistance: who will pay the bills? 13 Oct 2009
• Hospital and societal costs of antimicrobial-resistant infections in a Chicago teaching hospital: implications for antibiotic stewardship. 13 Oct 2009
• Discovery of new inhibitors of resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae penicillin binding protein (PBP) 2x by structure-based virtual screening. 6 Oct 2009
• The effect of the macrolide antibiotic tylosin on microbial diversity in the canine small intestine as demonstrated by massive parallel 16S rRNA gene sequencing. 30 Sep 2009
• Benzoyl peroxide: a review of its current use in the treatment of acne vulgaris. 29 Sep 2009
• Besifloxacin, a new ophthalmic fluoroquinolone for the treatment of bacterial conjunctivitis. 29 Sep 2009
• Annual change of primary resistance to clarithromycin among Helicobacter pylori isolates from 1996 through 2008 in Japan. 29 Sep 2009
• Moxifloxacin-containing triple therapy as second-line treatment for Helicobacter pylori infection: effect of treatment duration and antibiotic resistance on the eradication rate. 29 Sep 2009
• Characterization of class 1 integrons and gene cassettes in clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae from Taiwan. 29 Sep 2009
• Selection of colistin-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in postneurosurgical meningitis in an intensive care unit with high presence of heteroresistance to colistin. 29 Sep 2009
• Pursuing appropriateness of antimicrobial therapy prescription: is Italy on the move at last? 29 Sep 2009
• What is inadequate antibacterial therapy? 29 Sep 2009
• Magnitude of drug resistant Shigellosis: a report from Bangalore. 29 Sep 2009
• Anti-microbial resistance stratified by risk factor among Escherichia coli strains isolated from the urinary tract at a rural clinic in Central India. 29 Sep 2009
• One-day application of topical moxifloxacin 0.5% to select for fluoroquinolone-resistant coagulase-negative Staphylococcus. 29 Sep 2009
• Biphasic kill curve of isoniazid reveals the presence of drug-tolerant, not drug-resistant, Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the guinea pig. 29 Sep 2009
• Bacteriologic features of surgical site infections following breast surgery. 29 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Drug Resistance, Bacterial'

Definition: The ability of bacteria to resist or to become tolerant to chemotherapeutic agents, antimicrobial agents, or antibiotics. This resistance may be acquired through gene mutation or foreign DNA in transmissible plasmids (R FACTORS).

Descriptor UI: D024881

Alternative terms: Drug Resistance, Bacterial; Antibacterial Drug Resistance; Antibiotic Resistance, Bacterial;

Related Mesh Headings: Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; genetics; immunology; physiology; radiation effects; drug effects;

Tree Number: G06.099.225; G06.225.347; G07.690.320.269.347;

History Note: 2002

Technical Notes: GEN or unspecified; prefer specifics