Article
Colonization and infection with fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli among cancer patients: clonal analysis.
Infection - 1 Jan 2000
Oethinger M, Jellen-Ritter A S, Conrad S, Marre R, Kern W V
Abstract excerpt
Escherichia coli with high-level fluoroquinolone resistance were isolated from feces and/or various body sites of 16 cancer patients who were on oral fluoroquinolone prophylaxis. Population analysis of fecal isolates in 11 patients showed that fluoroquinolone-resistant E. coli was the only aerobi...
Topics
- Anti-Infective Agents
- Colony Count, Microbial
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA Primers
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Feces
- Female
- Fever of Unknown Origin
- Fluoroquinolones
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Neoplasms
- Neutropenia