What are the common Gram-positive organisms showing AMR?
Dr. Sunil Gupta, Additional Director, NCDC, will discuss about the common Gram-positive organisms showing antimicrobial resistance. Staphylococcus aureus is one of the predominant gram positive organism which shows a lot of resistance to drugs like penicillin, cephalosporin and many other drugs. He will also talk on Streptococcus pneumoniae which causes pneumonia. It was a highly sensitive bacteria few years back but nowadays has develop resistance to pneumococcal drugs like penicillin.
Dr. Sunil Gupta
Dr. Sunil Gupta is a Additional Director, HAG & HOD at National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)
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