Preventing antibiotic resistance in hospital textiles
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 11:30
in Health & Medicine
“Antibiotic resistance threatens a return to the pre-antibiotic era”. The World Health Organization uses this strong expression when referring to a phenomenon that is rapidly spreading: the increasing resistance of microorganisms to antimicrobial medicines, such as antibiotics. WHO estimates indicate that the excess mortality due to resistant bacterial hospital infections exceeds 25,000 every year, in Europe.