Antibiotic Susceptibility Among Aerobic Gram-negative Bacilli in Intensive Care Units in 5 European Countries
Open Access
- 6 January 1999
- journal article
- caring for-the-critically-ill-patient
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Jama-Journal Of The American Medical Association
- Vol. 281 (1), 67-71
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.281.1.67
Abstract
More than 20% of patients admitted to European intensive care units (ICUs) develop an ICU-acquired infection.1 A high prevalence of decreased antibiotic susceptibility among gram-negative bacilli has been reported from ICU patients in France,2,3 Belgium,4 Germany,5 and the Netherlands during 1990 and 1991,6 the United States between 1990 and 1993,7 and Belgium8 and Sweden9 during 1994 and 1995.Keywords
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