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Pharmacist Challenges Superbugs

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  1. medication literacy
  2. Bacterial resistance
  3. herbal medicine
  4. border health
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Rivera, José
College: School of Pharmacy
Department: Pharmacy

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  1. Health and Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
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Pharmacist Challenges Superbugs
Date: 12 April 2013 18:54



The overuse of antibiotics to treat minor infections is causing certain types of bacteria to become highly resistant to conventional treatment.

Carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE), or “superbugs,” cause pneumonia, bloodstream infections, wound or surgical site infections, and meningitis in health care settings and can be deadly for 50 percent of patients who become infected, according to a recent announcement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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