A client is asking the nurse how he contracted a multidrug-resistant microorganism in his foot wound. Previous use of antibiotics, advanced age, chronic illness actors likely contributed.
What is multidrug-resistant?
- Antimicrobial resistance to at least one antimicrobial drug in three or more antimicrobial categories is known as multiple drug resistance, multidrug resistance, or multiresistance.
- The accumulation of genes that each code for resistance to a particular agent on resistance (R) plasmids or transposons, as well as the activity of multidrug efflux pumps, each of which can secrete more than one drug type, are the two main causes of multidrug resistance in bacteria.
- Multidrug-resistant organisms develop when antibiotics are taken longer than necessary or when they are not needed.
- At first, only a few bacteria may survive treatment with an antibiotic.
- The more often the antibiotics are used, the more likely it is that resistant bacteria will develop.
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