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- Title
The antibiotic challenge: Changing clinical management of infections.
- Authors
Deasy, JoAnn
- Abstract
Resistance is one of many reasons why antibiotic therapy can be ineffective. Efforts to forestall further development of antimicrobial resistance include judicial prescribing of antibiotics, implementing infection-control measures, and developing institutional stewardship of antimicrobial agents. This article, the third and final in a series on antibiotic resistance, discusses selected common infections that have changing epidemiology and/or for which the recommended evaluation and treatment guidelines have been updated.
- Subjects
ANTIBIOTICS; INFECTION treatment; DRUG resistance; ANTI-infective agents; ETIOLOGY of diseases; EPIDEMIOLOGY
- Publication
JAAPA: Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (Haymarket Media, Inc.), 2009, Vol 22, Issue 5, p22
- ISSN
1547-1896
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1097/01720610-200905000-00006