MDRO

Definitions

Initialism of multidrug-resistant organism: a microbe with multiple drug resistance.

abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Examples

“The National Centre for Disease Control⟳ (NCDC) has refuted claims made in an international study⟳ published by The Lancet that over 50% of Indian patients hospitalised for a specific gastrointestinal procedure are colonised with at least one multi-drug-resistant organism (MDRO). The study⟳ has raised alarm over soaring antimicrobial resistance in India, describing it as a rapidly escalating superbug crisis and a “global threat”. In response, the NCDC, which is mandated to prevent⟳, detect⟳, and control⟳ diseases of public health importance in India, pointed out that The Lancet dataset only reports colonisation of multi-drug-resistant organisms, not actual infections. “Colonisation is a microbiological finding, but not a clinical failure,” it said, adding that the results refer⟳ to specific high-risk clinical groups and cannot be generalised for all patients or the general population in India.”

CEFR level