- ►annals.org CM Kunin - Annals of internal medicine, 1993 - Am Coll Physicians The introduction of penicillin 50 years ago was followed by an extraordinary period of
discovery, exuberant use, and predictable obsolescence. Resistant bacterial strains have emerged
and have spread throughout the world because of the remarkable genetic plasticity of the ... Cited by 341 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
CM Kunin - International journal of antimicrobial agents, 1995 - Elsevier The era of antimicrobial therapy is now in its seventh decade. The major scientific discoveries
made during this period have saved of countless lives and markedly reduced the morbidity of
infectious diseases. These achievements are now threatened by the global emergence of ... Cited by 7 - Related articles - All 5 versions
ML Cohen - Science (New York, NY), 1992 - archive.biomedcentral.com In the last several years, the frequency and spectrum of antimicrobial-resistant infections have
increased in both the hospital and the community. Certain infections that are essentially untreatable
have begun to occur as epidemics both in the developing world and in institutional ... Cited by 748 - Related articles - All 6 versions
- ►njit.edu [PDF] HC Neu - Science, 1992 - sciencemag.org Burke, K. Brudney, R. Bumgarner, G. Cauthen, J. Cook, A. Dannenberg, S. Dooley, M. Earle,
D. Enarson, P. Fine, T. Frieden, L. Garrett, D. Gwynn, M. Hamburg, G. Hardy, C. Hayden, J.
Hill, P. Hopewell, M. Iseman, W. Jacobs, Jr., A. Kochi, L. Reichman, A. Rouillon, C. ... Cited by 1282 - Related articles - All 7 versions
A Tomasz - New England journal of medicine, 1994 - content.nejm.org After a half-century of virtually complete control over microbial disease in the developed
countries, the 1990s have brought a worldwide resurgence of bacterial and viral diseases 1 .
An important factor in this phenomenon is the acquisition of antibiotic-resistance genes by ... Cited by 288 - Related articles - All 5 versions
BE Murray - The New England journal of medicine, 1994 - nejm.highwire.org Several reports in this issue of the Journal deal with the potentially disastrous situation of antibiotic
resistance 1 , 2 , 3 . The current antibiotic-resistance crisis differs from those of the past because
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PH Trnobranski - Journal of clinical nursing, 1998 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Since the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s, antibiotic resistance has become an increasing
problem. Today, multiple-antibiotic resistance is commonly associated with a number of clinically
important pathogens and is therefore an important issue in clinical nursing practice. ... Cited by 12 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
SF Dowell, B Schwartz - American family physician, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Increasing resistance to antimicrobial agents has occurred among many pathogens, but the emergence
of resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae will have the greatest impact on the practice of outpatient
medicine. Consequences of resistance include complicated management of acute otitis ... Cited by 181 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
J Calva - Social Science & Medicine, 1996 - Elsevier In developing countries, antibiotics are the most common drugs sold, and some data suggest
that they are frequently misused. In order to describe the pattern of antibiotic use in a periurban
community in Mexico City, 1659 randomly-selected households were visited and an ... Cited by 89 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
MA Lansang, R Lucas-Aquino, TE Tupasi, VS … - Journal of clinical …, 1990 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov The purchase of antimicrobial agents in drugstores in a district in Manila. The Philippines was
examined in order to determine how these agents might be used. Most antimicrobial agents are
imported as bulk products and repackaged by a large number of small firms into 1491 ... Cited by 67 - Related articles
