title: Antimicrobial drug resistance: a danger to world health.
abstract: Antimicrobial drug resistance threatens control of infectious disease throughout the world. Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns have changed to the extent that some pathogens are not responsive to the most powerful drug therapies available. IV nurses have the opportunity to educate the public and other health care workers about the importance of infection control practices and appropriate antimicrobial management.
authors.affiliation: Saint Joseph's Health System in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dugger
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012307:Risk Factors