Rapid Dissemination and Diversity of CTX-M Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Genes in Commensal Escherichia coli Isolates from Healthy Children from Low-Resource Settings in Latin America

A survey carried out in 2005 among members of a healthy population of children living in Bolivia and Peru revealed that fecal carriage of Escherichia coli strains resistant to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins was remarkably increased compared to that observed in the same settings in 2002 (1.7% in 20...

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Main Authors: Pallecchi, Lucia, Bartoloni, Alessandro, Fiorelli, Costanza, Mantella, Antonia, Di Maggio, Tiziana, Gamboa, Herlan, Gotuzzo, Eduardo, Kronvall, Göran, Paradisi, Franco, Rossolini, Gian Maria
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2007
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Mechanisms of Resistance
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1932529/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17548490
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00026-07
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