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Antibiotic resistance in a very remote Amazonas community.
International journal of antimicrobial agents - 1 Feb 2009
Bartoloni Alessandro, Pallecchi Lucia, Rodríguez Hugo, Fernandez Connie, Mantella Antonia, Bartalesi Filippo, Strohmeyer Marianne, Kristiansson Charlotte, Gotuzzo Eduardo, Paradisi Franco, Rossolini Gian Maria
Abstract excerpt
In a very remote human community of the Peruvian Amazonas with minimal antibiotic exposure, high levels of acquired resistance to the oldest antibiotics (ampicillin, tetracycline, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, streptomycin and chloramphenicol) were detected in commensal Escherichia coli, with remarkable diversity of resistant clones and of resistance genes and plasmids. This pattern was similar overall to that...
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