Giuseppe
Emeritus
NDM-1 ? A Cause for Worldwide Concern (NEJM, extract, edited)
[Source: New England Journal of Medicine, full free text: <cite cite="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1011715?query=TOC">NDM-1 ? A Cause for Worldwide Concern ? NEJM</cite>. Extract, edited.]
NDM-1 ? A Cause for Worldwide Concern
Robert C. Moellering, Jr., M.D.
N Engl J Med 2010; 363:2377-2379
December 16, 2010
The past several years have seen a number of reports of superbugs: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, the so-called ESKAPE organisms (an acronym for Enterococcus faecium, S. aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and enterobacter species), and others.1 For the most part, these organisms owe their superbug status not to enhanced pathogenicity or virulence (although some are capable of causing overwhelming disease in the proper setting) but to their resistance to multiple antimicrobial agents.
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[Source: New England Journal of Medicine, full free text: <cite cite="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1011715?query=TOC">NDM-1 ? A Cause for Worldwide Concern ? NEJM</cite>. Extract, edited.]
NDM-1 ? A Cause for Worldwide Concern
Robert C. Moellering, Jr., M.D.
N Engl J Med 2010; 363:2377-2379
December 16, 2010
The past several years have seen a number of reports of superbugs: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, the so-called ESKAPE organisms (an acronym for Enterococcus faecium, S. aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and enterobacter species), and others.1 For the most part, these organisms owe their superbug status not to enhanced pathogenicity or virulence (although some are capable of causing overwhelming disease in the proper setting) but to their resistance to multiple antimicrobial agents.
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