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'Pre-emptive culturing' will improve the chance of 'getting it right' when empirical therapy of urinary tract infections fails
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- Sundqvist, Martin (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper
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- Kahlmeter, Gunnar (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper
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- 2009-05-19
- 2009
- English.
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In: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0305-7453 .- 1460-2091. ; 64:2, s. 227-228
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- Antibiotic resistance is increasing and beginning to affect the outcome of empirical antimicrobial therapy of urinary tract infections. Associated resistance, i.e. the fact that a bacterium resistant to one antibiotic is often much more likely to be resistant to other antibiotics, drastically decreases our chances of getting a second empirical attempt right. To increase the use of narrow-spectrum antibiotics, which are considered to be less selective for resistance, we need to develop new strategies from the laboratory to support our clinical colleagues. We suggest that 'pre-emptive culturing' of urine (i.e. a culture obtained before empirical treatment is instituted) will prevent clinicians from making a second improper empirical choice or having to resort to expensive broad-spectrum antimicrobials, which may drive resistance further. This strategy will be especially important in settings with high levels of resistance.
Keyword
- antibiotic resistance
- associated resistance
- future strategies
- MEDICINE
- MEDICIN
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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