"Each Day in the Hospital Raises Risk of Multidrug-Resistant Infection"

If a patient contracts an infection while in the hospital, each day of hospitalization increases by 1 percent the likelihood that the infection will be multidrug-resistant, according to research presented at the 54th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) an infectious disease meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.

Read the full article from Infection Control Today here.

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