An emerging multidrug-resistant bacteria

Plant Essential Oil: An Alternative to Emerging Multidrug Resistant Pathogens

Multidrug resistance is a challenge across different types of microorganisms, bacterial and viral pathogens. This is because they account for a significant outcome of clinical infections observed. The tendency of microorganisms to acquire and disseminate resistance genes among themselves via horizontal gene transfer makes resistance patterns to become widely distributed. Bacterial pathogens exh...

Multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis: an emerging threat.

Acinetobacter baumannii: an emerging multidrug-resistant pathogen in critical care.

Deborah A. Boyle is the practice outcomes nurse specialist and Magnet coordinator. Acinetobacter baumannii is a troublesome and increasingly problematic healthcare-associated path ogen, especially in critical care. It may be associated with hospitalacquired infections with considerable clinical and economic costs. In physiologically compromised patients, morbidity and mortality are common seque...

Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria in Southeastern Austria

To the Editor: In many parts of the world, the proportions of methicil-lin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant en-terococci, and extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)–producing organisms in the family Enterobacteriaceae have increased remarkably during recent years (1). However, proportions of antimicrobial drug resistance vary substantially at national and regional leve...

Multidrug-resistant bacteria: what is the threat?

Despite big advances in antimicrobial therapies and infection strategies, the emergence of antibiotic resistance represents an emergency situation, especially in immunocompromised hosts. Specifically, infections due to multidrug resistant, gram-negative pathogens are responsible for high mortality rates and may leave few effective antimicrobial options. Furthermore, although new compounds are a...