Emerging Health Care Crisis In The Developing World: Gram-Negative Rods Discovered In Two Philippine Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found a high frequency of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative rods (GNRs) in two of the largest neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in the city of Manila, Philippines. Improved infection control methods could reduce the vast number of hospital acquired neonatal infections. The BUSM study appears online in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

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Filed under: MRSA / Drug Resistance on May 18th, 2009