Antibiotic resistance associated with staphylococcal ocular isolates

Antibiotic resistance among commonly used topical antibiotics is significant, first author of the ARMOR study results told Healio/OSN.
“The ARMOR surveillance study gives us an incredible view of eye infections over 10 years in the U.S.,” Penny A. Asbell, MD, MBA, of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, said.
The study, which looked at more than 6,000 isolates from 88 sites across 41 states, determined that more than one-third of Staphylococcus aureus and nearly one-half of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) ocular

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