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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH
Volume 15, Issue 12, Pages 525-532Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/2047-783X-15-12-525
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antibiotic treatment; multi drug resistance; intra abdominal infection
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The management of severe intra abdominal infections remains a major challenge facing surgeons and intensive care physicians because of its association with high morbidity and mortality Surgical management and intensive care medicine have constantly improved but in the recent years a rapidly continuing emergence of resistant pathogens led to treatment failure secondary to infections with multi drug resistant bacteria In secondary peritonitis the rate of resistant germs at the initial operation is already 30 % The lack of effective antibiotics against these pathogens resulted in the development of new broad spectrum compounds and antibiotics directed against resistant germs But so far no super drug with efficacy against all resistant bacteria exists Even more soon after their approval reports on resistance against these novel drugs have been reported or the drugs were withdrawn from the market due to severe side effects Since pharmaceutical companies reduced their investigations on antibiotic research only few new antimicrobial derivates are available In abdominal surgery you may be in fear that in the future more and more patients with tertiary peritonitis secondary to multi drug resistant species are seen with an increase of mortality after secondary peritonitis This article reviews the current treatment modalities for complicated intra abdominal infections with special reference to the antibiotic treatment of complicated intra abdominal infections with multi drug resistant species
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