Gram-positive bacteria have become more important as a source of both community and
nosocomial infection in the United States during the past few-years. In part, this has been …

In the first half of the decade of the 1990s, we in the United States have seen the emergence
and escalation of substantial antimicrobial resistance in medically important gram-positive …

The focus on antibiotic resistance has shifted from recognition to prevention. This is evident
from the kinds of reports on this problem in some of the 36 medical journals from 21 …

T HE frequency with which organismscausing nosocomial (hospital-associated) infection are
resistant to antimicrobial agents has been a con-tinuing concern to clinicians …

Introduction: Antimicrobial resistance among bacteria is an increasing public health
problem. In 1991, New Jersey was the first state to establish statewide, hospital-based …

Treatment of bacterial infections in the hospital and community has been altered drastically
over the past decade with the emergence of pathogenic organisms that are no longer …

The pattern of antimicrobial resistance of common bacterial isolates obtained from various
groups of patients at a large tertiary-care center was compared with the pattern of resistance …

Staphylococcus aureus or penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae,> 50% of
infections in hospitals are caused by Gram-negative bacilli. As a result, the American Society …

Antimicrobial resistance of bacterial pathogens usually varies from one geographic location
to another. During the last 20 years, outbreaks of disease caused by multiresistant bacteria …

During the past decade there has been a marked increase in resistance of bacteria to
antimicrobial agents. Microorganisms have developed the ability to make altered receptors …