Abstract
An Emptying Quiver: Antimicrobial Drugs and Resistance
Highlights
(sexual and otherwise), will always have limitations in a free society. All of these shortcomings emphasize the critical role of research and dissemination of information. This issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases is devoted to antimicrobial resistance and highlights both burgeoning and neglected areas
In the case of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), articles cover outbreaks in Uruguay and in a US hospital nursery and maternity unit, emergence of a particular clone in Canada, prevalence in US emergency department patients, characteristics of patients admitted to a Swiss hospital, and the severity of this infection in pediatric patients
One article estimates hospitalizations associated with MRSA infection
Summary
Dr Courvalin is professor and head of the Antibacterial Agents Unit, National Reference Center for Antibiotics, Institut Pasteur, Paris. He is a member of multiple committees and professional organizations in Europe and around the world and a prolific author on infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance topics. He serves on the editorial board of several international journals, including Emerging Infectious Diseases
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