Antibiotic Policies

1. Healthcare Associated Infections—The Size of the Problem
Eimear Brannigan, Alison Holmes

2. The Antibiotic Paradox
Ian M. Gould

3. The Epidemiology of Pan/Extreme Drug Resistance
Yoshiro Hayashi, David L. Paterson

4. Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship to Control Resistance—How Should It be Done?
Ian M. Gould

5. Controlling Clostridium difficile Infection and the Role of Antibiotic Stewardship
Ed J. Kuijper, S. Johnson, A. Goorhuis, M. H. Wilcox

6. The Control of MRSA
Evelina Tacconelli, G. Angelis

7. The Role of Antibiotic Policies in Controlling VRE
Abhijit M. Bal

8. The Control of ESBL-Producing Bacteria
Peter M. Hawkey

9. Controlling Hospital-Acquired Infection due to Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)
Mitchell J. Schwaber, Yehuda Carmeli, Stephan Harbarth

10. Control of Multi-Drug Resistant Acinetobacter Infections
Paschalis Vergidis, Matthew E. Falagas

11. The Control of Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas: Insights into Epidemiology and Management
Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis

12. Multidrug-Resistant Infections in Low-Resource Health Care Settings
Cara Winters, Hellen Gelband

13. Germ Shed Management in the United States
Kevin Outterson, Olga Yevtukhova

14. Required Actions to Control Antimicrobial Resistant Healthcare-Associated Infections
Inge C. Gyssens, Jos W. M. Meer

Nyckelord: Medicine & Public Health, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, Immunology, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Virology