Antibiotic Resistance: Understanding and Responding to an Emerging Crisis

摘要

Interest in the problem of antimicrobial drug resistance was once limited to health care workers and academics. Today, the problem is widespread, and patients are acquiring drug-resistant infections for which there may be no active therapeutic agents. Antimicrobial drug–resistant infections, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, have spread beyond health care settings and now cause disease, including life-threatening infections, in community settings