TY - JOUR AU - Huang, Susan S. AU - Labus, Brian J. AU - Samuel, Michael C. AU - Wan, Dairian T. AU - Reingold, Arthur L. T1 - Antibiotic Resistance Patterns of Bacterial Isolates from Blood in San Francisco County, California, 1996-1999 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2002 VL - 8 IS - 2 SP - 195 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Countywide antibiotic resistance patterns may provide additional information from that obtained from national sampling or individual hospitals. We reviewed susceptibility patterns of selected bacterial strains isolated from blood in San Francisco County from January 1996 to March 1999. We found substantial hospital-to-hospital variability in proportional resistance to antibiotics in multiple organisms. This variability was not correlated with hospital indices such as number of intensive care unit or total beds, annual admissions, or average length of stay. We also found a significant increase in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, and proportional resistance to multiple antipseudomonal antibiotics. We describe the utility, difficulties, and limitations of countywide surveillance. KW - antibiotic resistance KW - MRSA KW - VRE KW - bacteremia KW - county surveillance KW - United States KW - California DO - 10.3201/eid0802.010102 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/2/01-0102_article ER - End of Reference