La resistencia a antimicrobianos en las Américas

• Localización: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública = Pan American Journal of Public Health, ISSN-e 1680-5348, ISSN 1020-4989, Vol. 6, Nº. 6 (Diciembre), 1999, págs. 437-439
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Antimicrobial resistance in the Americas
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  • español

    El aumento de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos se ha convertido en un serio problema de salud pública. De hecho, actualmente circulan cepas farmacorresistentes de los agentes que causan el cólera y otras formas de diarrea aguda, la malaria, la neumonía y la tuberculosis, enfermedades que, en conjunto, provocan la muerte de más de 10 millones de personas anualmente. La situación se ve empeorada por la falta de nuevos productos farmacéuticos

  • English

    The increase in the resistance to antimicrobials has become a serious public health concern. Responding jointly to this problem, the Pan American Health Organization and the Pan American Association of Infectious Diseases, supported by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Venezuela, organized the Pan American Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance, which was held in Caraballeda, Venezuela, from 2 to 4 November 1998. In this work the principal recommendations coming out of that conference are summarized for each subject addressed there: educating health professionals on the appropriate use of antibiotics, developing a Pan American network to monitor resistance, quality control and ways to achieve laboratory results that are consistent and comparable, and the appropriate and inappropriate use of antibiotics, both in hospitals and in the community.