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J Hosp Med
May 2021
Division of Infectious Diseases, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Arch Public Health
September 2017
University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW Australia.
Public health messaging about antimicrobial resistance (AMR) sometimes conveys the problem as an epidemic. We outline why AMR is a serious endemic problem manifested in hospital and community-acquired infections. AMR is not an epidemic condition, but may complicate epidemics, which are characterised by sudden societal impact due to rapid rise in cases over a short timescale.
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September 2015
From the Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan (M-TGL, S-HL, C-CL); Department of Family Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan (S-SC); Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan (S-SC); Department of International Business, Asia University, 500, Lioufeng Rd., Wufeng, Taichung City, Taiwan (Y-LC); Loyola University New Orleans College of Law 6363 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA (LP); Department of Business Administration, Tunghai University, Tunghai University, Taichung City, Taiwan (S-MH); and Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of General Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin Branch, Douliou, Taiwan (C-CL).
No comparative effectiveness study has been conducted for the following 3 antibiotics: respiratory fluoroquinolones, β-lactam, and β-lactam + advanced macrolide. To gain insights into the real-world clinical effectiveness of these antibiotics for community-acquired pneumonia in adult outpatients, our study investigated the treatment failure rates in 2 million representative participants from the National Health Informatics Project (NHIP) of Taiwan. A new-user cohort design was used to follow NHIP participants from January 2000 until December 2009.
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December 2008
Chicago, IL. Electronic address:
Int J Food Microbiol
January 2009
State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Laribacter hongkongensis is a recently discovered novel bacterium associated with community-acquired gastroenteritis. Although the bacterium has been isolated from freshwater fish and natural freshwater environments, it is not known if other freshwater animals could also be a source of L. hongkongensis.
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