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Emergence and spread of three clonally related virulent isolates of CTX-M-15-producing Escherichia coli with variable resistance to aminoglycosides and tetracycline in a French geriatric hospital.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Oct 2004
Leflon-Guibout Véronique, Jurand Cécile, Bonacorsi Stéphane, Espinasse Florence, Guelfi Marie Claude, Duportail Françoise, Heym Beate, Bingen Edouard, Nicolas-Chanoine Marie-Hélène
Abstract excerpt
Three types of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli isolates, called GEN S, GEN R, and AMG S, according to their three different aminoglycoside resistance patterns, were responsible for urinary tract colonization or infection in 87, 12, and 13 new patients, respectively, in a French 650-bed geriatric hospital over a 13-month period. The three E. coli types belonged to the same clone and phylogenetic group (group...
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