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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 aerobic gram-negative bacillus present and exhibited a relatively homogenous fluoroquinolone MIC distribution. Molecular...
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