Alan H. Mutnick

TL;DR: The results of this study have identified the most common causes of SSTIs in hospitalized patients in North America, and can be used to make informed decisions concerning standards of empiric treatment for S STIs in this region.

TL;DR: Linezolid resistance remains rare, with only 8 isolates among 9833 monitored isolates identified between January 1, 2001, and June 30, 2002, and resistance, however, was no longer limited to enterococci.

TL;DR: The SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program continues to identify important North American patterns of pathogen frequency and resistance and provides comparisons, which function as critical tools for effective patient management and antimicrobial interventions.

TL;DR: BAL9141 demonstrated excellent activity against many tested pathogens displaying various resistance phenotypes, and should be particularly valuable in the treatment of MRSA as well as for drug-resistant streptococci, while maintaining a spectrum resembling a 'third-generation' cephalosporin against other clinically important species.

TL;DR: The availability of aggregate USA medical centre antimicrobial usage data enabled us to identify several important trends in the incidence of resistance among P. aeruginosa and Enterobacteriaceae and require a continued search for other monitoring methods that can better identify antimicrobial/environmental factors that lead to resistance.