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Brian Vastag

JAMA. 2002;288:947-948.

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Washington—Last year's anthrax-in-the-mail–induced "cipromania" and the ubiquity of germicidal household products are worsening community-based antibiotic resistance, warned Stuart Levy, MD, professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, at an annual press event sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID). Whereas in the recent past, public health officials were most concerned about hospital-based drug resistance, the problem has spread into homes, schools, and workplaces, said Levy, rendering some strains of bacteria resistant to eight or nine classes of antibiotics.

He cited the case of an 11-month-old girl with a chronic ear infection that was refractory to treatment. She required hospitalization and intravenously administered antibiotics after six courses of various oral antibiotics proved futile. The Pneumococcus strain eventually identified from the girl "could have been deadly," said Levy. Several of the child's playmates at her Georgia day care center also harbored the bacteria. "Such strains . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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