Why are antibiotic resistant organisms (AROs) particularly important in hospitals?
* Most patients in hospitals have very poor immune systems and thus have the potential to become infected with other pathogens that are brought into contact with them, especially those as lethal or as powerful as organisms that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. * Secondly, medical apparatuses such as an intravenous drip or a catheter in patients can serve as portals of entry through which AROs or any other infectious agent can infect them. * Often, patients are treated in close living quarters, which significantly increases the chances of AROs spreading among patients. That is why keeping patients known to be infected with any AROs are isolated immediately. * Lastly, and perhaps most ominously, hospitals are unfortunately an ideal environment for bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus to easily come across a great number of antibiotics. Consequently, AROs can develop through genetic selection and survival of the fittest bacteria. How is MRSA treated? As you can imagine, it is much
