§ Mr. Kitsonasked the Minister of Health what special precautions are now being taken to deal with the problems of transferable drug resistance in the Tees-side hospitals.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonDoctors in the Teesside hospitals are fully aware of the difficulties presented by organisms liable to show transferable drug resistance and great care is being taken in the choice of antibiotics in the treatment of infections due to such organisms. All pathogenic intestinal organisms, when first isolated from a patient, are now tested216W routinely for sensitivity to a number of antibiotics. After treatment of an intestinal infection three successive negative faecal specimens are required before the patient is regarded as cured.