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Article: Antibiotic Resistance to Community-Acquired Infections: Clinical Impact on Emergency Department Practice.
- Article from:
- Emergency Medicine Reports
- Article date:
- October 17, 2005
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Antibiotic Resistance to Community-Acquired Infections: Clinical Impact on Emergency Department Practice
Author: Laura Pimentel, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore.
Peer Reviewers: Sandra Schneider, MD, FACEP, Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; and Robert D. Powers, MD, MPH, Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington.
Bacterial resistance to antibiotic treatment has concerned the medical community since the introduction of the first antibiotics in the 1920s. ...