Study quantifies threat of rising antibiotic resistance on surgery, chemotherapy
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
Researchers report the strongest evidence yet that rising antibiotic resistance could have disastrous consequences for patients undergoing surgery or cancer chemotherapy. New estimates suggest that up to half of infections after surgery and over a quarter of infections after chemotherapy are caused by organisms already resistant to standard prophylactic antibiotics in the USA.