1. Erratum to: Antimicrobials: a global alliance for optimizing their rational use in intra-abdominal infections (AGORA)
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Kuo Ching Yuan, Sujith J Chandy, Katia Iskandar, Michael McFarlane, Nathalie Guessennd, M. Bala, Timothy M. Rawson, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Sandro Rizoli, Stephen M. Brecher, Alain Chichom-Mefire, Richard Ofori-Asenso, Rao R. Ivatury, Miguel Sanchez-Garcia, Ngo Tat Trung, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Angel Dillip, Yunfeng Cui, Yousheng Li, Antonio Corcione, Tonny Loho, F. Corcione, Vishalkumar G Shelat, Federico Coccolini, Helen Giamarellou, W. R. Heizmann, Richard R. Watkins, Zaza Demetrashvili, Asma Althani, Iain J. Abbott, Andreas Hecker, Addison K. May, Adrián Camacho-Ortiz, Wagih Ghnnam, Sydney Malama, Kenneth Y.Y. Kok, Jonathan Tilsed, Shamshul Ansari, Garima Kapoor, Young R. Lee, B. Sakakushev, A R K Adesunkanmi, Fausto Catena, Kjetil Søreide, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Rifat Latifi, Daniel Curcio, Marc Leone, Norio Sato, Arda Isik, Robert G. Sawyer, Gereltuya Dorj, Mouaqit Ouadii, F. A. Moore, Miran Rems, Jason A. Roberts, Ravinder S. Vohra, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, András Vereczkei, Zsolt J. Balogh, Georgios Gkiokas, Sara Al-Dahir, Walter L. Biffl, Raul Coimbra, Sonja Hansen, Mainul Haque, Kenji Inaba, Ferdinando Agresta, Jean-Ralph Zahar, Miguel Caínzos, Ari Leppäniemi, Pierre-François Laterre, S. Di Saverio, Jean-François Timsit, Vladimir Khokha, Gabriele Sganga, Luca Ansaloni, Brian J. Wright, Jean Louis Vincent, Agron Dogjani, Jan Ulrych, Reinhold Kafka-Ritsch, Paula Ferrada, Sanjay Marwah, Rashid Ansumana, Swati Dhingra, Lewis J. Kaplan, Warren Lowman, Aneel Bhangu, Matthew C Knox, Ionut Negoi, Yonghong Xiao, Gabriel Trueba, H. A. Segovia Lohse, Claudio Rocha, Waldemar Uhl, Joseph R Fitchett, Gustavo Pereira Fraga, Michael P. Doyle, Jae G. Lee, Goran Augustin, Valery N. Egiev, G. A. Pereira Júnior, Jakub Kenig, Ashwani Kumar, Abdelkarim H. Omari, Peter K. Kim, Oussema Baraket, Suk-Kyung Hong, Stephen Y. Liang, Ernest E. Moore, Torsten Herzog, Mutasim M. Elmangory, Victor Y. Kong, Hervé Dupont, John E. Mazuski, H. van Goor, Pierluigi Viale, Kelly A. Cairns, Guntars Pupelis, Martin G. Kees, Philippe Montravers, Christian Eckmann, R. V. Maier, Yoram Kluger, Marja A. Boermeester, Carl Erik Nord, Ronald Kiguba, Etienne Ruppé, Harumi Gomi, Hany E. Marei, Ewen A. Griffiths, J. J. De Waele, Mushira Enani, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Boonying Siribumrungwong, B. De Simone, Rodolfo Soto, Caroline Colijn, Samir Delibegovic, Stephanie Goldberg, Marcelo A. Beltrán, Rita Maria Melotti, Matteo Bassetti, Adrien Hodonou, Marc Maegele, Sanoop K. Zachariah, Jill R. Cherry-Bukowiec, Dominik Mertz, Claudio Viscoli, Diego Piazza, Massimo Sartelli, O.R. Buyne, Manuel Guzman-Blanco, Majdi N. Al-Hasan, Peep Talving, Michael Bernhard, Imtiaz Wani, Renato Bessa Melo, I. Di Carlo, Tanya L. Zakrison, Dieter G. Weber, Soumitra R. Eachempati, Carlos A. Ordoñez, Amos Massele, Kaoru Koike, Aleksandar Karamarkovic, Adrian Brink, Brad Spellberg, Maurizio Labbate, David P. Nicolau, Jose J. Diaz, A. Che Jusoh, and Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
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medicine.medical_specialty ,International Cooperation ,lcsh:Surgery ,Peritonitis ,Microbial Sensitivity Tests ,Tigecycline ,030230 surgery ,medicine.disease_cause ,Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Antibiotic resistance ,Anti-Infective Agents ,medicine ,Humans ,Agora ,Intensive care medicine ,computer.programming_language ,Science & Technology ,business.industry ,Abdominal Infection ,lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid ,Drug Resistance, Microbial ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,lcsh:RD1-811 ,lcsh:RC86-88.9 ,Prognosis ,medicine.disease ,Antimicrobial ,Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ,Spelling ,3. Good health ,Emergency Medicine ,Intraabdominal Infections ,Surgery ,Artificial intelligence ,Erratum ,business ,computer ,Life Sciences & Biomedicine ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Intra-abdominal infections (IAI) are an important cause of morbidity and are frequently associated with poor prognosis, particularly in high-risk patients. The cornerstones in the management of complicated IAIs are timely effective source control with appropriate antimicrobial therapy. Empiric antimicrobial therapy is important in the management of intra-abdominal infections and must be broad enough to cover all likely organisms because inappropriate initial antimicrobial therapy is associated with poor patient outcomes and the development of bacterial resistance. The overuse of antimicrobials is widely accepted as a major driver of some emerging infections (such as C. difficile), the selection of resistant pathogens in individual patients, and for the continued development of antimicrobial resistance globally. The growing emergence of multi-drug resistant organisms and the limited development of new agents available to counteract them have caused an impending crisis with alarming implications, especially with regards to Gram-negative bacteria. An international task force from 79 different countries has joined this project by sharing a document on the rational use of antimicrobials for patients with IAIs. The project has been termed AGORA (Antimicrobials: A Global Alliance for Optimizing their Rational Use in Intra-Abdominal Infections). The authors hope that AGORA, involving many of the world's leading experts, can actively raise awareness in health workers and can improve prescribing behavior in treating IAIs.
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