Multiresistance

Definition
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Form of antibiotic/virostatic resistance, in which bacteria or viruses are resistant to several different antibiotics or antivirals A distinction must be made here between genetically determined antibiotic resistance (e.g. cephalosporin resistance in enterococci) and acquired antibiotic resistance.

General informations
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Of importance are:

MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus strains)
VISA (Vancomycin intermediate-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus strains)
AER, GRE (Vancomycin/Glycopeptide-resistant Enterococci Penicillin-resistant Pneumococci)
Multi-resistant Gram-negative bacteria.