Nationwide Increase In Antibiotic Resistance Underscores Need For Appropriate Treatment Of Bacterial Infections
Porter Novelli, New YorkNationwide study indicates a 15% increase in drug resistance over the last three years, suggesting that office physicians need to look out for antibiotic resistance in their patients and prescribe antibiotics appropriatley. Investigators collected over 8,000 samples from around the country of the Haemophilus influenzae bacteria which causes chronic bronchitis, middle-ear infections and sinusitis.