INCREASING BURDEN OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA FROM ADULT PATIENTS WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS (CF) IN NORTHERN IRELAND: THEN AND NOW

Andrea Gramegna; John E Moore; John McCaughan; B Cherie Millar; Judith Ewing; J Stuart Elborn; Francesco Blasi; Damian G Downey

INCREASING BURDEN OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA FROM ADULT PATIENTS WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS (CF) IN NORTHERN IRELAND: THEN AND NOW

Ulster Med J. 2018 May;87(2):129-130. Epub 2018 May 30.

Authors

Andrea Gramegna^{1

2

3}, John E Moore^{1

2

4

5}, John McCaughan^{1

2}, B Cherie Millar^{1

2

5}, Judith Ewing², J Stuart Elborn^{4

6}, Francesco Blasi³, Damian G Downey^{2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Bacteriology, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, Lisburn Road, BELFAST, BT9 7AD, Northern Ireland.
² Regional Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, Lisburn Road, BELFAST, BT9 7AD Northern Ireland.
³ Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Università degli Studi di Milano, Internal Medicine Department, Respiratory Unit and Regional Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center,IRCCS Fondazione Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
⁵ School of Biomedical Sciences, Ulster University, Cromore Road, Coleraine, BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland.
⁶ Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital, London.

PMID: 29867273
PMCID: PMC5974647

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Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
Cystic Fibrosis / complications*
Cystic Fibrosis / microbiology
Disk Diffusion Antimicrobial Tests
Drug Resistance, Bacterial*
Humans
Northern Ireland
Pseudomonas Infections / microbiology*
Pseudomonas aeruginosa / drug effects*
Pseudomonas aeruginosa / isolation & purification
Sputum / microbiology

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents