Suitable utilisation of antibiotics to avoid the appearance of drug-resistant bacteria

• In: From bench to bedside: Advancing pharmaceutical care on Monday, 3 September 2018, 14:30-17:30
• At: Glasgow (Scotland) (2018)
• Type: Presentation
• By: LINDSAY, Jodi (University of London, UK)
• Abstract:

  Increasing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to modern medicine.  The most problematic AMR pathogens are commensal bacteria that normally live in the human gut or on skin.  Exposure of patients to antimicrobials selects for resistance in these colonising organisms, increasing the risk that subsequent infection will be caused by

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