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Prospective Study of Fecal Colonization by Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Producing <i>Escherichia coli</i> in Neutropenic Patients with Cancer
23 Sept 2008
Abstract excerpt
Fecal colonization by extended-spectrum-beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in 912 stool samples collected from 154 neutropenic patients with cancer, hospitalized at two teaching institutions, was prospectively studied. Forty-nine (31.8%) patients were colonized, 22 of them at hospital admission. Most strains were clonally unrelated and carried a CTX-M-9 group enzyme.
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