Nursing Product Guide » drug-resistant strains http://www.nursingproductguide.com/blog A comprehensive guide to nursing products for medical professionals Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:30:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 New Strain Of Drug-Resistant Bacteria Emerging In US Hospitals http://www.nursingproductguide.com/blog/2010/01/08/new-strain-of-drug-resistant-bacteria-emerging-in-us-hospitals/ http://www.nursingproductguide.com/blog/2010/01/08/new-strain-of-drug-resistant-bacteria-emerging-in-us-hospitals/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:07:48 +0000 Jim Marino http://www.nursingproductguide.com/blog/?p=188 AcinetobacterA new study published in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology reports a surge in drug-resistant strains of a dangerous type of bacteria in US hospitals: Acinetobacter strikes patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and others and often causes severe pneumonias or bloodstream infection, some of which are now resistant to imipenem, an antibiotic that is reserved for last-line treatment.

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