Antibiotic-Resistant Infections and Treatment Challenges in the Immunocompromised Host.

Antibiotic-Resistant Infections and Treatment Challenges in the Immunocompromised Host.

Dumford Donald M 3rd; Skalweit Marion

Infectious disease clinics of North America

2016

2016-06

This article reviews antibiotic resistance and treatment of bacterial infections in the growing number of patients who are immunocompromised: solid organ transplant recipients, the neutropenic host, and persons with human immunodeficiency virus and AIDS. Specific mechanisms of resistance in both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, as well as newer treatment options are addressed elsewhere, and are only briefly discussed in the context of the immunocompromised host.

*Anti-Bacterial Agents/administration & dosage/pharmacology/therapeutic use; *Bacterial Infections/drug therapy/microbiology; *Drug Resistance; *HIV/AIDS; *Immunocompromise; *Immunocompromised Host; *Infection; *MDRO; *Organ transplant recipients; Bacteria/drug effects/pathogenicity; Bacterial; HIV Infections; Humans; Multiple; Transplant Recipients

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