The Global Challenge Posed by the Multiresistant International Clones of Bacterial Pathogens

• Main Author: Miklos Fuzi (auth)
• Other Authors: Margaret Ip (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical); antibiotic resistance; dissemination; pathogen; Clone
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Multiresistant bacterial pathogens pose a serious problem worldwide making the appropriate treatment of patients with healthcare-associated infections a challenge. The spread of antibiotic resistance is either mediated by mobile genetic elements (MGEs) or the dissemination of genetically-related gro...