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City New Delhi / / Company HP / CRE / / Continent America / Africa / / Country South Africa / / / Event M&A / / IndustryTerm healthcare workers / travel medicine / healthcare system / allied healthcare workers / local healthcare setting / healthcare institution / patient management / health care systems / healthcare / personal protective equipment / healthcare sector / healthcare providers / healthcare organisations / / MedicalCondition Pseudomonas / hospital-acquired infection / Acinetobacter baumannii infections / Gram-negative infections / adult and paediatric infectious disease / communicable diseases / particular infection / vancomycin-resistant S. aureus / colistin-resistant Pseudomonas / S. aureus / untreatable bacterial infection / pediatric cystic fibrosis / MDR bacterial infection / infection / MDR bacterial infections / catheter-associated bloodstream infections / infections / infectious disease / extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis / sexually transmitted diseases / / MedicalTreatment intravascular catheters / catheter / antibiotics / intravenous therapy / / Organization Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America / civil society / Infection Control Society / Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of Southern Africa / Infectious Diseases Society / Department of Health / South African Society / / Person Mark Nicol / Andrew Whitelaw / Nicol Chairperson / / Position President / Africa President / Clinical Microbiology Adrian Brink Co-Chair / Corresponding author / / Product linezolid / / ProvinceOrState Gauteng Province / / Region Southern Africa / / URL http / SocialTag 
EDITORIAL Wake up, South Africa! The antibiotic ‘horse’ has bolted Decades of poor medical and veterinary antibiotic prescribing and a lack of regard for the practice of infection prevention and control (IPC) in our