Pathology
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Comparative Study
Antimicrobial drug utilisation in Dunedin Hospital, New Zealand, and its association with antimicrobial resistance.
Antimicrobial resistance (AR) to a drug can be considered a natural response to the selection pressure of that drug, with over prescribing being one of the major causes. Few investigations have evaluated the relationships between antimicrobial drug use in a hospital and antimicrobial resistance. ⋯ The findings of antimicrobial drug utilisation studies in hospital can serve to describe the pattern of drug use in the institution, to detect areas of concern, and to evaluate the impact of interventions taken to influence the use of drugs, especially when this use is associated with increasing antimicrobial drug resistance.
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Letter Case Reports
Favourable outcome of pulmonary zygomycosis in haematological malignancy.