Tracking trends in antibiotic effectiveness using the Drug Resistance Index

Communicating trends in resistance using a drug resistance index

Background Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem worldwide, but communicating this challenge to policymakers and non-experts is complicated by the multiplicity of bacterial pathogens and the distinct classes of antibiotics used to treat them. It is difficult, even for experts aware of the pharmacodynamics of antibiotics, to infer the seriousness of resistance without information on how com...

Tools for Tracking Antibiotic Resistance

Tracking Drug Overdose Trends in Ohio using ED Chief Complaints

Introduction The State of Ohio, as well as the country, has experienced an increasing incidence of drug ODs over the last three decades [3]. Of the increased number of unintended drug OD deaths in 2008, 9 out of 10 were caused by medications or illicit drugs [1]. In Ohio, drug ODs surpassed MVCs as the leading cause of injury death in 2007. This trend has continued through the most current avai...

Antibiotic Resistance Trends in Clinical Bovine Mastitis

The present study was aimed to know and monitor the antibiotic resistance trends in the clinical cases of bovine mastitis from Nanded, Latur, Osmanabad and Beed districts of Maharashtra State, India. A total of 300 dairy animals from Nanded, Latur, Osmanabad and Beed districts of Maharashtra State, India, including cross bred and indigenous cattle and buffaloes over the period of five years (fr...

Impact of antibiotic administrative restrictions on trends in antibiotic resistance.

CONTEXT In March 2001, in response to concerns about increasing resistance to fluoroquinolone (FQ) antibiotics, the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) program limited reimbursement of FQs to ODB beneficiaries defined as high risk or in whom other therapies are not tolerated. OBJECTIVE To analyze the impact of the limited use (LU) policy changes on antibiotic resistance rates in Ontario, focussing on ...