NUR1 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sputum, Pus, Serratia Marcescens
8 Dec 2017
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Multi-drug resistant organisms: this lecture goes together with the lecture from last week on antibiotic resistance, we will be covering the current mdros, mdros have many different names. These organisms can be antimicrobial resistant, or amr. They can be multi-drug resistant (organisms), or mdr/mdro. Some of them are pan or extreme drug resistance, or pdr/xdr: the pdrs are very resistant to most treatments, and some have made it to the jgh, but not the. Muhc: the most common mdros make up eskape soup: Other enterobacteraciae resistance: we used to have many different antibiotics, but now we don"t have as many. This is due to how we market antibiotics. Physicians become hesitant to prescribe unnecessary antibiotics make it even more difficult for. It takes a while to develop antibiotics, and it takes 9 years for the companies to make a profit. companies to make a profit. Note that this is not obligatory reporting, so the numbers could be under-reported.
