Carbapenems are amongst the group of antibiotics of last resort for medical professionals, the development of NDM - 1 and its now more frequent effect on occurrences of Klebsiella pneumonia, and effect on the commonly occurring infection E.coli, should give us cause to fear the future. (politics.co.uk)
Dantas said the meropenem finding is particularly alarming, as it's part of the carbapenem class of drugs that are considered antibiotics of last resort. (source.wustl.edu)
The vast majority of the antibiotics stocking our pharmacy shelves — from old standards like tetracycline to antibiotics of last resort like vancomycin and, most recently, daptomycin — are derived from soil organisms. (discovermagazine.com)