{"title":"Antibiotic prescribing as a risk factor for MRSA.","authors":"Mark H Wilcox","doi":"10.12968/hmed.2005.66.3.17693","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is accumulating evidence to support the role of specific antibiotic classes as risk factors for selecting meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Crucially, however, controlled studies of antimicrobial prescribing interventions are lacking. The evidence for the association between antimicrobial prescribing and expansion of MRSA is reviewed here.</p>","PeriodicalId":79637,"journal":{"name":"Hospital medicine (London, England : 1998)","volume":"66 3","pages":"180-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.12968/hmed.2005.66.3.17693","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Hospital medicine (London, England : 1998)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.12968/hmed.2005.66.3.17693","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
There is accumulating evidence to support the role of specific antibiotic classes as risk factors for selecting meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Crucially, however, controlled studies of antimicrobial prescribing interventions are lacking. The evidence for the association between antimicrobial prescribing and expansion of MRSA is reviewed here.