Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2007)

Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Singapore Hospitals

  • Li-Yang Hsu,
  • Thean-Yen Tan,
  • Roland Jureen,
  • Tse-Hsien Koh,
  • Prabha Krishnan,
  • Raymond Tzer-Pin Lin,
  • Nancy Wen-Sin Tee,
  • Paul Ananth Tambyah

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1312.070299
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 12
pp. 1944 – 1947

Abstract

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A new national antimicrobial resistance surveillance program in Singapore public hospitals that uses WHONET detected high levels of methicillin resistance among Staphylococcus aureus (35.3%), carbapenem resistance among Acinetobacter spp. (49.6%), and third-generation cephalosporin resistance among Klebsiella pneumoniae (35.9%) hospital isolates in 2006. Antimicrobial drug resistance is a major problem in Singapore.

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