TABLE 1-3Clinical Problems of Multi-Drug Resistance

Hospital-acquired disease organismsCommunity-acquired disease organisms
Gram-negative
Acinetobacter sp.
Citrobacter sp.
Enterobacter sp.
Escherichia coli
Klebsiella sp.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Serratia marcescens

Gram-positive
Enterococcus sp.: VRE
Coagulase-negative staphylococci
Staphylococcus aureus: MRSA;VISA;VRSA		Gram-negative
Escherichia coli
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Salmonella typhi
Salmonella typhimurium

Gram-positive
Enterococcus sp.: VRE
Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Staphylococcus aureus: MRSA
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Streptococcus pyogenes

SOURCE: Levy, 2002b.

From: 1, Introduction

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The Resistance Phenomenon in Microbes and Infectious Disease Vectors: Implications for Human Health and Strategies for Containment: Workshop Summary.
Institute of Medicine (US) Forum on Emerging Infections; Knobler SL, Lemon SM, Najafi M, et al., editors.
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2003.
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