Hospital Acquired Infections, Multidrug Resistant (MDR) Bacteria, Alternative Approaches to Antibiotic Therapy

• Other Authors: Bostik, Pavel (Editor), Kolar, Milan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Medicine; Epidemiology & medical statistics; VRE; GIT; hemato-oncological patients; clonality; antibiotic stewardship; resistance; consumption of antibiotics; clonal spread; Enterococcus faecium; Enterococcus faecalis; linezolid resistance; 23S rRNA; optrA; carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae; carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii; N-acetylcysteine; septic shock; critically ill patients; newborn; infection; bacteria; antibiotic therapy; hops; C. difficile; rat model; Staphylococcus aureus; MRSA; spa typing; MLST; SCCmec typing; clonal analysis; epidemiology; cancer patients; duration of treatment; colistin; propensity score analysis; multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii; urinary tract infections; UTIs; MDR; Escherichia coli; Klebsiella; uropathogens; AMR; antibiotic resistance; ESBL-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae; urinary tract infection; clinical impact; economic impact; ventilator-associated pneumonia; Klebsiella spp.; Escherichia spp.; pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE); endogenous infection; methicillin-resistant; porcine model; methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA); long term care facilities (LTCF); multidrug resistance (MDR); enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus-polymerase chain reaction (ERIC-PCR); ESBL; PCR; primer; antimicrobial resistance; infection prevention and control; antimicrobial stewardship; hospital; cluster analysis; principal component analysis
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Bacterial resistance to known and currently used antibiotics represents a growing issue worldwide. It poses a major problem in the treatment of infectious diseases in general and hospital-acquired infections in particular. This is in part due to the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in past decades,...