February 2013
Health and Development, Antibiotic Resistance
January 2013
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
April 2012
Health and Development, Antibiotic Resistance
Patient sharing means that infections move between facilities. How can we tackle MRSA beyond the individual hospital level?Read more
December 2011
Antibiotic Resistance
A report summarizing the situation as it is known regarding antibiotic use and growing resistance in India and recommending short and long term actions.Read more
November 2011
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
This article develops a method for aggregating bacterial resistance to multiple antibiotics, creating a drug resistance index comparable to the composite economic indices that measure consumer prices and stock market values.Read more
September 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
Are rates of bacterial bloodstream infections in hospitals associated with seasonality or temperature?Read more
August 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
What is the burden of bacterial infections, including antibiotic resistant infections, in South Africa, and what can be done to improve health for the population?Read more
August 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
A legislative round-up of the 111th Congress's action on antibiotic resistance...Read more
July 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
July 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
April 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
A robust global surveillance system is needed to monitor and address the growing problem of antibiotic resistance worldwide.Read more
February 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Health and Development
What are the costs of illness and disability among diabetic patients in Thailand? Are government disability allocations sufficient to cover these costs?Read more
January 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
Researchers often use administrative codes as indicators of MRSA infections. But is this technique valid and accurate for measuring MRSA rates?Read more
January 2011
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
December 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Malaria
June 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
June 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
June 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
June 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
June 2010
Antibiotic Resistance
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance
Background: No simple, cost-effective methods exist to identify patients at high risk for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci colonization outside intensive care settings. Without such methods, colonized patients are entering hospitals undetected and...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
Sepsis and pneumonia are the two most common, serious health-care associated infections, and they impose substantial costs on our society, both in terms of lives lost and dollars spent. Here those costs are quantified.Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
Risk factors for the nosocomial recovery of imipenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (IRPA) were determined. A case-control study design was used for the comparison of 2 groups of case patients with control patients. The first group of case patients had nosocomial isolation of IRPA, and the second...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Disease Control Priorities
Background: Institutions such as hospitals, prisons, and longterm care facilities have been identified as focal points for the transmission of emerging infections. Cost-effective control of these infections in large populations requires the identification of optimal subpopulations for targeted...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
Growing resistance to last-line drug...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Health and Development
Directly transmitted infectious diseases spread through wildlife populations as travelling waves away from the sites of original introduction. These waves often become distorted through their interaction with environmental and population heterogeneities and by long-distance translocation of...Read more
May 2010
Malaria, Antibiotic Resistance
OBJECTIVE: To assess the co-colonization rates of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing bacteria and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) obtained on active surveillance cultures.DESIGN: Prospective cohort study.SETTING: Medical and surgical intensive care units (ICUs) of a tertiary-...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotic Resistance
The aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of hygiene routines and characteristics of the daycare centre (DCC) on sickness absence in preschool children. Background In Sweden most children attend daycare outside home during daytime. Daycare outside home results in cognitive and social gains...Read more
May 2010
Antibiotic Resistance
Objectives: The aim of this study was to use detailed weekly data on outpatient antibiotic sales for pre-school children in Sweden to test for the significance of trends during 1992-2002. We also report on the special features found in weekly antibiotic data, and how the interrupted time series (...Read more
May 2010
Environmental Health, Antibiotic Resistance
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has become a major problem in US hospitals already dealing with high levels of hospital-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA). Using antimicrobial drug susceptibility data for 19992006 from The Surveillance Network, we characterized the...Read more
