Monday 8 September 2014

Risk of Multidrug-Resistant Infection Increases With Each Day of Hospitalization

If an infection is contracted by a patient while in hospital, each day of hospitalization increases the likelihood that the infection will be multidrug-resistant by 1%, revealed a research presented at the 54th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) an infectious disease meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. Researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina gathered and analyzed historical data from 949 documented ...

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