Two-year assessment of the pathogen frequency and antimicrobial resistance patterns among organisms isolated from skin and soft tissue infections in Latin American hospitals: results from the SENTRY antimicrobial surveillance program, 1997-98. SENTRY Study Group
Gales AC;Jones RN;Pfaller MA;Gordon KA;Sader HS;;
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases2000Vol. 4pp. -
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Abstract
High resistance rates to antimicrobial drugs among the most frequent bacterial pathogens were observed in 10 medical centers in Latin America. This study also demonstrated a clonal dissemination of a MDR-MRSA strain in several nations.