Proposed amendments regarding the definitions of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant bacteria

It is fortunate that an international panel of experts proposed definitions for multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) in the past.In our opinion, these definitions need amendments in order to be semantically more accurate.We suggest for the MDR definition to add to 'MDR is defined as non-susceptibility to at least one agent in three or more antimicrobial categories' that this non-susceptibility is at most to the total...