Korean Nationwide Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance of Bacteria in 1998
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- 1Department of Clinical Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. leekcp@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
- 2Department of Clinical Pathology, College of Medicine, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea.
- 3Department of Clinical Pathology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- 4Department of Clinical Pathology, Yongdong Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
- 5Department of Clinical Pathology, Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- 6Department of Clinical Pathology, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- KMID: 1067116
- DOI: http://doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2000.41.4.497
Abstract
- Antimicrobial resistance surveillance can provide information needed for empirical therapy of antimicrobial agents and for control of resistance. To determine the trend of antimicrobial resistance in Korea, in vitro susceptibility data in 1998 were collected from 25 hospitals participating to a program of Korean Nationwide Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (KONSAR). The data were analyzed based upon hospital location and bed capacity. The results showed that cefoxitin-resistant E. coli and K. pneumoniae and 3rd-generation cephalosporin-resistant K. pneumoniae were prevalent, that 3rd-generation cephalosporin-resistant E. cloacae, S. marcesens and A. baumannii had increased, and ampicillin-resistant S. enterica were not rare. Oxacillin-resistant S. aureus, penicillin-non-susceptible pneumococci and beta-lactamase-producing H. influenzae were prevalent even smaller hospitals surveyed, and an increase of imipenem-resistant P. aeruginosa and vancomycin-resistant E. faecium is a new obvious threat. In general, resistance rates to some old antimicrobial agents, i.e., E. coli to ampicillin and S. aureus to oxacillin were high and did not vary greatly between the different levels of hospitals, while the rates to some of the newer ones, i.e., P. aeruginosa to imipenem, was quite variable and depended on the hospitals, probably reflecting difference in selective pressure.
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