Acquisition of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing Escherichia coli strains in male and female infants admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit: molecular epidemiology and analysis of risk factors.

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Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) are bacterial enzymes that confer resistance to advanced generation cephalosporins and can lead to therapeutic failures. There has been no analysis of factors associated with the risk of acquisition of ESBLs in neonates in an intensive care unit from nort...

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