Successful Interventions for Gram‐Negative Resistance to Extended‐Spectrum β‐Lactam Antibiotics
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Antibiotic resistance among nosocomial pathogens in this country's hospitals adds significantly to patient morbidity and mortality and the cost of health care. Optimism for identifying antimicrobial agents that would “solve the problem” of resistance has been replaced by a much more guarded and realistic view of the battle between humans and pathogenic microorganisms. Efforts now are more appropriately directed toward limiting, rather than completely eliminating, resistance, generally by either infection control or antibiotic control measures, and sometime combinations of the two. Methicillin‐oxacillin resistance in
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