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Molecular epidemiological analysis of quinolone-resistant Escherichia coli causing bacteremia in neutropenic patients with leukemia in Korea.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Dec 1997
Yoo J H, Huh D H, Choi J H, Shin W S, Kang M W, Kim C C, Kim D J
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We analyzed an outbreak of Escherichia coli bacteremia in eight patients with leukemia in a hematology-oncology unit from July to September 1994. The antibiograms and genotypic patterns of the isolates were different, thus suggesting that the outbreak did not originate from a single clone. However, all the isolates were resistant to quinolones, which led us to examine the microbiological records from 1992 to...
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