Abstract
Guggenbichler S1, M Hell2 and Guggenbichler JP3* Author Affiliations 1Division for Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Surgery of the University Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Austria 2MEDILAB, Teaching Laboratory of the Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, Salzburg, Austria 3Department or Pediatrics, AmiSTec GMbH und Co KG, Kössen, Austria Received: May 03, 2021 | Published: May 10, 2021 Corresponding author: Guggenbichler JP, Department or Pediatrics, Univ. Erlangen, AmiSTec GMbH und Co KG, Kössen, Austria DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2021.35.005737
Highlights
For people in the 21st century, it is hard to imagine the world before antibiotics
Intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired infections are a challenging health problem worldwide, especially when caused by multidrugresistant (MDR) pathogens and a daily challenge for the clinician dealing with critically ill patients
Multi drug resistant (MDR) bacteria have been reported as contaminating microorganisms of surfaces, commonly used medical equipment and high-contact communal surfaces in ICU [8]
Summary
For people in the 21st century, it is hard to imagine the world before antibiotics. At the beginning of the 20th century, as many as nine women out of every 1,000 who gave birth died, 40 percent from sepsis. Surgical procedures were associated with high morbidity and mortality due to infection This picture changed dramatically with three major developments: improvements in public health, vaccines, and antibiotics. The evolution of antibiotic resistance is occurring at an alarming rate and is outpacing the development of new countermeasures capable of thwarting infections in humans [3,4,5,6,7]. This situation threatens patient care, economic growth, public health, agriculture, economic security, and national security. The UN Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance demands immediate, coordinate and ambitious measures to combat this problem [8]
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