bactitech
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/pdf/ar/mdroGuideli...
To help you correlate what you are studying with real life, please look over this article from a recent news release by CDC. I realize it is very long, but it's worth bookmarking for future reference. I see many of these organisms in cultures on a daily/weekly basis. We recently had an Acinetobacter baumanii that was resistant to every drug on our panel. The doc requested additional antibiotics and it was only sensitive to Colistin in vitro.
Book learning is one thing: real life is another. You would-be surgeons out there will be dealing with many many MRSA infections in your futures (amongst other bugs). You internists will be dealing with MRSA and all the nasty respiratory bugs that your patients will be picking up in ICU units. ALL of you will be dealing with these issues. Some of you might become infectious disease docs. You will be on the front lines!
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/ This page has clickable links to the above page, a page on C. difficile, and MRSA. C. difficile is also becoming resistant to standard treatment, and multiple deaths have occurred at a site in Canada.
I cannot stress enough the importance of hand washing. There is a movement afoot amongst insurers to stop reimbursement for nosocomial infections. This means that if an infection can be proven to be acquired in-house (from hospital staff, etc.) then insurers will NOT pay. This affects all of our future bottom lines.
Get in the hand washing habit :-).
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Clinical Microbiology since 1974
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