Controlling Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospitals: Infection Control and Use of Antibiotics
Antimicrobial-drug resistance in hospitals is driven by failures of hospital hygiene, selective pressures created by overuse of antibiotics, and mobile genetic elements that can encode bacterial resistance mechanisms. Attention to hand hygiene is constrained by the time it takes to wash hands and by...
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| Language: | English |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2001-04-01
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| Series: | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
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| Online Access: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/2/70-0188_article |