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Access to antibiotics: a safety and equity challenge for the next decade

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is increasing worldwide in healthcare settings and in the community. Some microbial pathogens have become resistant to multiple antibiotics, if not all presently available, thus severely compromising treatment success and contributing to enhanced morbidity, mortal...

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Autores principales: Carlet, Jean, Pittet, Didier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3599140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23305311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-2-1
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description Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is increasing worldwide in healthcare settings and in the community. Some microbial pathogens have become resistant to multiple antibiotics, if not all presently available, thus severely compromising treatment success and contributing to enhanced morbidity, mortality, and resource use. The major driver of resistance is misuse of antibiotics in both human and non-human medicine. Both enhanced access and restricted use in many parts of the world is mandatory. There is an urgent need for an international, integrated, multi-level action to preserve antibiotics in the armamentarium of the 21(st) century and address the global issue of antimicrobial resistance.
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spelling pubmed-35991402013-03-17 Access to antibiotics: a safety and equity challenge for the next decade Carlet, Jean Pittet, Didier Antimicrob Resist Infect Control Commentary Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is increasing worldwide in healthcare settings and in the community. Some microbial pathogens have become resistant to multiple antibiotics, if not all presently available, thus severely compromising treatment success and contributing to enhanced morbidity, mortality, and resource use. The major driver of resistance is misuse of antibiotics in both human and non-human medicine. Both enhanced access and restricted use in many parts of the world is mandatory. There is an urgent need for an international, integrated, multi-level action to preserve antibiotics in the armamentarium of the 21(st) century and address the global issue of antimicrobial resistance. BioMed Central 2013-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3599140/ /pubmed/23305311 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-2-1 Text en Copyright ©2013 Carlet and Pittet; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3599140/
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