Antibiotic Resistance in Maryland: The Statewide Antibiogram Initiative

The New Mexico Clinical Prevention Initiative: a statewide prevention partnership.

The New Mexico Department of Health and the New Mexico Medical Society invited organizations to participate in an initiative to promote clinical preventive services. The Clinical Preventive Initiative (CPI) focuses on the following interventions based on burden of illness, preventability of the condition, cost, current level of services, availability of leadership, and programmatic support: adu...

Antibiotic Resistance among Clinical Isolates of Staphylococcus Aureus and Usefulness of Antibiogram

The emerging resistance to antibiotics and the poor pipeline of new antibiotics is creating a major health issue world-wide. The resistance problem demands that a renewed effort be made to seek antibacterial agents effective against pathogenic bacteria resistant to current antibiotics. Cumulative antibiogram is valuable in monitoring the resistance pattern and to improve empirical therapy by in...

Tri-County Workforce Development: A TANF INITIATIVE IN RURAL MARYLAND

Comparison of Antibiogram Results of Two Types of Antibiotic Discs and Validation by E.test Method on Bacteria with High Antibiotic Resistance Patterns

Background and Objective: The increased resistance of microorganisms to common antibiotics is one of the major therapeutic challenges for patients. The present study aimed to compare the antibiogram results of two types of antibiotic discs and validate them by the Epsilometer test (E-test) method on bacteria with high antibiotic resistance patterns. Materials and Methods: This descriptive-anal...

Antibiotic resistance in the community.

There are three articles in this issue of the Medical Journal of Malaysia that are related to the issue of antibiotic resistance in the community,,2,3. The prevalence of antibiotic resistance in communityacquired pathogens is increasing world-wide• Data on community antibiotic resistance, unlike similar data on nosocomial pathogens, are often not readily available. Nonetheless, such data are es...