This is not a particularly good day to be reviewing new papers
Percentages of isolates tested by province ranged from 2.1% (Yunnan) to 18.1% (Tianjin). Among isolates submitted, resistance was identified to ciprofloxacin (97.6%), penicillin (77.8%), tetracycline (77.1%), azithromycin (16.9%), cefixime (16.0%), and ceftriaxone (8.1%) (Table 2). Only one isolate was resistant to spectinomycin. Among 2,804 isolates, those from 18 cases were identified as resistant to all antibiotics except spectinomycin.
Now, for context, spectinomycin is old, introduced in 1961, and (in the US) only available for veterinary use. Not a great final option, you know?
Cipro is used fairly commonly, first choice for Lyme, resistant UTI’s. SE are there, of course, but everything has them. We try to balance the risk and benefit.
Private equity-backed urology practices control nearly 40% of the market in the Philadelphia region, according to a recent Health Affairs study that provided rare insight into the opaque world of private, for-profit health-care businesses.
Heard this story yesterday on my way home from work. My thought at the time was, “Yeah, amazingly enough, privatizing into a system actively collapsing is a bad idea.”
