Antimicrobial resistance in fecal flora: Longitudinal community-based surveillance of children from urban Mexico

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1699-1702

  Calva, Juan J ^a   Sifuentes Osornio, José ^a   Cerón, Cecilia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GENTAMICIN; NITROFURANTOIN; NORFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CULTURE; FECES MICROFLORA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KLEBSIELLA; MEXICO; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHIGELLA;

EID: 0029884810     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.7.1699     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Bennish, M. L., and M. A. Salam. 1992. Rethinking options for the treatment of shigellosis. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 30:243-247.
2. Bojalil, R., and J. J. Calva. 1994. Antibiotic misuse in diarrhea. A household survey in a Mexican community. J. Clin. Epidemiol. 47:147-156.
3. Bonten, M., E. Stobberingh, J. Philips, and A. Houben. 1992. Antibiotic resistance of Escherichia coli in fecal samples of healthy people in two different areas in an industrialized country. Infection 20:258-262.
4. Calva, J. J., and R. Bojalil. 1996. Antibiotic use in a periurban community in Mexico: a household and drugstore survey. Soc. Sci. Med. 42:1121-1128.
5. Calva, J. J., G. M. Ruiz-Palacios, A. B. López-Vidal, A. Ramos, and R. Bojalil. 1988. Cohort study of intestinal infection with Campylobacter in Mexican children. Lancet i:503-506.
6. Chambers, S. T., C. Steele, and C. M. Kunin. 1987. Enteric colonization with antibiotic resistant bacteria in nurses working in intensive care units. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 19:685-693.
7. Cohen, M. L. 1992. Epidemiology of drug resistance: implications for a post-antimicrobial era. Science 257:1050-1055.
8. Fornasini, M., R. R. Reves, B. E. Murray, A. L. Morrow, and L. K. Pickering. 1992. Trimethoprim-resistant Escherichia coli in households of children attending day care centers. J. Infect. Dis. 166:326-330.
9. Frost, J. A., B. Rowe, and J. Vandepitte. 1982. Acquisition of trimethoprim resistance in epidemic strain of Shigella dysenteriae from Zaire. Lancet i:963.
10. Guerrant, R. L., S. J. Wood, L. Krongaard, R. A. Reid, and R. H. Hodge. 1981. Resistance among fecal flora of patients taking sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim or trimethoprim alone. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 19: 33-38.
11. Guerrero, L., J. J. Calva, A. L. Morrow, et al. 1994. Asymptomatic Shigella infections in a cohort of Mexican children younger than two years of age. Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J. 13:597-602.
12. Kunin, C. M. 1993. Resistance to antimicrobial drugs - a worldwide calamity. Ann. Intern. Med. 118:557-561.
13. Lester, S. C., M. P. Pla, F. Wang, I. P. Schael, H. Jiang, and T. F. O'Brien. 1990. The carriage of Escherichia coli resistant to antimicrobial agents by healthy children in Boston, in Caracas, Venezuela, and in Qin Pu, China. N. Engl. J. Med. 323:285-289.
14. Levy, S. B., B. Marshall, S. Schluederberg, D. Rowse, and J. Davis. 1988. High frequency of antimicrobial resistance in human fecal flora. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 32:1801-1806.
15. London, N., R. Nijsten, A. V. D. Bogaard, and E. Stobberingh. 1993 Antibiotic resistance of faecal Enterobacteriaceae isolated from healthy volunteers, a 15-week follow-up study. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 32:83-91.
16. López-Vidal, Y., J. J. Calva, A. Trujillo, A. Ponce de León, A. Ramos, A. M. Svennerholm, and G. M. Ruiz-Palacios. 1990. Enterotoxins and adhesins of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli: are they risk factors for acute diarrhea in the community? J. Infect. Dis. 162:442-447.
17. Reves, R. R., B. E. Murray, L. K. Pickering, D. Prado, M. Maddock, and A. V. Bartlett. 1987. Children with trimethoprim- and ampicillin-resistant fecal Escherichia coli in day care centers. J. Infect. Dis. 156:758-762.
18. Rydberg, J., and A. Cederberg. 1986. Intrafamilial spreading of Escherichia coli resistant to trimethoprim. Scand. J. Infect. Dis. 18:457-460.
19. Sahm, D. F., and J. A. Washington II. 1991. Antibacterial susceptibility tests: dilution methods, p. 1105-1116. In A. Balows, W. J. Hausler, Jr., K. L. Herrmann, H. D. Isenberg, and H. J. Shadomy (ed.), Manual of clinical microbiology, 4th ed. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.
20. Shanahan, P. M. A., C. J. Thomson, and S. G. B. Amyes. 1995. β-Lactam resistance in normal faecal flora from South Africa. Epidemiol. Infect. 115: 243-253.
21. Shanahan, P. M. A., B. A. Wylie, P. V. Adrian, H. J. Koornhof, C. J. Thomson, and S. G. B. Amyes. 1993. The prevalence of antimicrobial resistance in human faecal flora in South Africa. Epidemiol. Infect. 111:221-228.
22. Shears, P., G. Suliman, and C. A. Hart. 1988. Occurrence of multiple antibiotic resistance and R plasmids in Enterobacteriaceae isolated from children in the Sudan. Epidemiol. Infect. 100:73-81.
23. Velázquez, F. R., J. J. Calva, M. L. Guerrero, D. Mass, R. I. Glass, L. K. Pickering, and G. M. Ruiz-Palacios. 1993. Cohort study of rotavirus serotype patterns in symptomatic and asymptomatic infections in Mexican children. Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J. 12:54-61.