Vereniging voor Infectieziekten

29e vergadering gehouden op 24 en 25 maart 1990 te Brugge

Microsymposium: infecties bij dialysepatiËnten

S.B.Levy (Boston, Mass.), Multidrug resistance: the problem for the 1990's

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics was first recognized with the introduction of penicillin into hospitals for treatment of staphylococcal infections. Resistance to other antibiotics appeared later, subsequent to their use. While initially confined to isolated organisms, resistance, over the past two decades, has emerged in increasingly more pathogens causing diseases of the skin and of the respiratory, genitourinary, and gastrointestinal tracts. Newly resistant species harbor resistance determinants, previously found in other species and genera, now transferred…