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Open Access
01.12.2015 | Poster presentation
Emergence of isolates that are intrinsically resistant to colistin in critically ill patients: are we selecting them out?
verfasst von:
MN Sivakumar, M Hisham, V Nandakumar, T Gopinathan
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Sonderheft 1/2015
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Excerpt
Poor infection control practices along with irrational usage of antibiotics lead to emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) organisms. Increasing use of colistin for treating MDR infections leads to selection of organisms that are intrinsically resistant to colistin. There are limited Indian literatures which evaluated the incidence of intrinsically resistant isolates to colistin in critically ill patients. Our study aimed to investigate the incidence of true pathogen or colonizer with the prior antibiotic exposure and patient's clinical outcome. …