Infections caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa are considered a major public health problem. Antibiotic options are scarce but new drugs are emerging and more maybe available in the near future.

Topics discussed:

• Pseudomonas aeruginosa as an important pathogen capable of developing resistance to multiple antibiotics
• Common mechanisms of resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
• The current and future approaches for these MDR organisms.

Guests:

• Michael Satlin, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, William Randolph Hearst Foundation Clinical Scholar in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
• Alessandra Carattoli, PhD, Professor of Microbiology at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Editor, AAC

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