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Antibiotic Stewardship: Possibilities when Resources Are Limited

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Infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria continue to challenge physicians in daily practice. There is growing animicrobial resistance among the Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens that cause infections in the hospital and in the community [1–3]. Rice recently called these the “ESKAPE” pathogens (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumanii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species) [2] to emphasize that they currently cause the majority of world-wide hospital infections and effectively ‘escape’ the effects of antibacterial drugs.

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Curcio, D. (2010). Antibiotic Stewardship: Possibilities when Resources Are Limited. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2010. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 2010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10286-8_25

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