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| Briefings on Infection Control |
| May 2008 |
| Take a team approach to target, mitigate antibiotic resistance at your facility |
| Antibiotic-resistant organisms can cause problems for ICPs. For each resistant organism that appears, ICPs must respond accordingly to contain it, says B. Joseph Guglielmo Jr., PharmD, professor of clinical pharmacy at the University of California-San Francisco. It's also a huge problem for healthcare in general. With a limited number of new antibiotics on the horizon, particularly those that target gram-negative bacteria, there is growing concern about this issue.
Although ICPs may not be able to handle this issue alone, there are several strategies they can use to alleviate the problem at their facilities, say experts. |
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