PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Vinall, Phil
ED  - Jacobs, Michael R.
TI  - Drug Resistance to Antibiotics Continues to Spread
DP  - 2006 Oct 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 4--11
VI  - 6
IP  - 4
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/6/4/4.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/6/4/4.full
AB  - Multi-drug resistance to antibiotics continues to increase as strains not covered by the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine PCV7 have replaced those included in the vaccine as the source of disease in the US population. Although these non-vaccine strains represented only 16% of the multiple resistant isolates before the introduction of the vaccine in 2000, they represent one of every two multiple resistant isolates today. Resistance is expected to increase until it reaches a plateau, dependent upon the cumulative exposure to antibiotics in the United States population.