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Bug Breakfast in the Bulletin: Antimicrobial resistance: moving forward to the past
- Source :
- New South Wales Public Health Bulletin. 23:37
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- The Sax Institute, 2012.
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Abstract
- Globally emerging antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli present increasing challenges to community transmission of infection. Recently, New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) was identified; this enzyme makes bacteria resistant to most beta-lactam antibiotics which are used to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.
- Subjects :
- Veterinary medicine
Biomedical Research
biology
Transmission (medicine)
business.industry
medicine.drug_class
Antibiotics
Australia
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Drug Resistance, Microbial
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
bacterial infections and mycoses
medicine.disease_cause
biology.organism_classification
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance
Staphylococcus aureus
medicine
Humans
New delhi
Practice Patterns, Physicians'
business
Escherichia coli
Bacteria
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10347674
- Volume :
- 23
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- New South Wales Public Health Bulletin
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....55ca0b12ee5d73d37e47e41e53b7d5a0
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1071/nb11043