ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANCE IN RESPIRATORY PATHOGENS

Authors
DOMINGUEZ MA PALLARES R
Citation
Ma. Dominguez et R. Pallares, ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANCE IN RESPIRATORY PATHOGENS, Current opinion in infectious diseases, 11(2), 1998, pp. 139-145
Citations number
84
Categorie Soggetti
Infectious Diseases
Journal title
Current opinion in infectious diseases → ACNP
ISSN journal
09517375
Volume
11
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
139 - 145
Database
ISI
SICI code
0951-7375(1998)11:2<139:AIRP>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
Antibiotic resistance in respiratory pathogens has dramatically increa sed during recent years. Resistance to penicillin and multiple antimic robial agents in pneumococci and resistance to ampicillin in Moraxella catarrhalis and Haemophilus influenzae, as a result of betalactamase production, have become highly prevalent worldwide. The emergence of m ultiple drug-resistant tuberculosis in different countries is of conce rn, and has become a therapeutic challenge. (C) 1998 Rapid Science Ltd .