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Annotated Bib - 6 views

Here's a copy: Kristen Bautz Erin Carroll Ellen Dargie Biology of Drugs and People, Group 6 Annotated Bibliography: Supergerms PRIMARY DOCUMENT Tiwari, Hare Krishna, Das, Ayan, Sapkota, Darshan...

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Our Topic? - 1 views

I LOVE THAT! lets do that!

started by Kristen Bautz on 25 Oct 09 1 follow-up, last by erin carroll on 27 Oct 09

Another possible popular source? - 3 views

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Possible annotation for the LATIMES article - 3 views

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Possible annotation for Nursing Times article (review article) - 2 views

Let me know what you think: "We chose the article "Antibiotic resistance: how it arises, the current position and future strategies" as our review article. The review, prepared by two nurses at Un...

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annotation - 2 views

What do you guys think if we use the hospital LATIMES cover as our popular source, a primary source on supergerms, and a review of the spread of supergerms?

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

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

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spreading from hospitals into the community at unprecedented rates.
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These new super germs--stronger, more elusive and deadlier--have multiplied for decades inside thousands of hospitals
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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overdoing antibiotics - 2 views

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

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erin carroll on 25 Oct 09

this is pretty good background information on the overuse of antibiotics

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">this is pretty good background information on the overuse of antibiotics</div>

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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).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">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).</div>

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