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Kristen Bautz

Antibiotic resistance: how it arises, the current ...[Nurs Times. 2009 Sep 15-21] - - P... - 1 views

preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...19835196

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  • Kristen Bautz on 28 Oct 09
     
    I think that this is a good review source. It summarizes the findings of several studies about the nature of antibiotic resistance (which we would need as background for our topic).
erin carroll

Drug-resistant germs adapt, thrive beyond hospital walls -- latimes.com - 2 views

www.latimes.com/...207230231jul23,0,1348640.story

shared by erin carroll on 27 Oct 09 - Cached
  • spreading from hospitals into the community at unprecedented rates.
  • These new super germs--stronger, more elusive and deadlier--have multiplied for decades inside thousands of hospitals
  • But, increasingly, microorganisms survive for days, even months. And they have developed the ability to breed most anywhere.
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  • Victims developed strains of pneumonia, blood poisoning and dozens of other infections rarely identified outside hospitals as recently as five years ago.
  • spurred by a long-standing practice to rapidly treat patients with antibiotics but not invest in the more time-consuming efforts to locate the sources of germs, federal studies show.
  • ided by cost-saving strategies to discharge patients quickly. In the 1970s, the average stay was about seven days for most patients. Today, stays at most hospitals average three days,
  • Most infections are not detectable during the first three days after exposure, so doctors commonly flood patients with antibiotics, even when they're not sure an infection is present. Health-care researchers cite this practice as one of the chief culprits behind the rise in drug resistance.
erin carroll

overdoing antibiotics - 2 views

www.health.harvard.edu/...Overdoing-Antibiotics.htm

shared by erin carroll on 25 Oct 09 - Cached
  • erin carroll on 25 Oct 09
     
    this is pretty good background information on the overuse of antibiotics
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