Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamases: Far Worse than MRSA Full Text
Emergency Medicine News, 07/06/2012
Roberts JR – The resistant organisms can be deadly, community–acquired, and quickly kill seemingly healthy individuals. Extended spectrum beta–lactamases (ESBLs) organisms are no longer simply relegated to academic ramblings on ID rounds, and they are no longer just denizens of the ICU, peril to septic nursing home patients, or lethal to the immunocompromised.



