Molecular epidemiology of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli isolated from hospitalized patients with urinary tract infections in Northern Palestine

Polish Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-26

  Adwan, K ^a   Abu Hasan, N ^a   Adwan, G ^a   Jarrar, N ^a   Abu Shanab, B ^a   Al Masri, M ^a  

^a AN NAJAH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; DNA fingerprinting; E. coli; ERIC PCR

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PALESTINE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 3042565863     PISSN: 01371320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Allen U.D., N. MacDonald, L. Fuite, F. Chan and D. Stephens. 1999. Risk factors for resistance to "first-line" antimicrobials among urinary tract isolates of Escherichia coli in children. Can. Med. Assoc. J. 160: 1436-1440.
2. Bauer A.W., W.M.M. Kirby, J.C. Sherris and M. Truck. 1966. Antibiotic susceptibility testing by a standardized single disk method. J. Gen. Microbiol. 45: 493-496.
3. DallaCosta L.M., K. Irino, J. Rodrigues, I.N.G. Rivera and L.R Trabulsi. 1998. Characterization of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli clones by ribotyping and ERIC-PCR. J. Med. Microbiol. 47: 227-234.
4. Ena J., M.M. Lopez-Perezagua, C. Martinez-Peinado, M.A. Cia-Barrio and I. Ruiz-Lopez. 1998. Emergence of ciprofloxacin resistance in Escherichia coli isolates after widespread use of fluoroquinolones. Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 30: 103-107.
5. Garau J., M. Xercavins, M. Rodriguez-Carballeira, J.R. Gomez-Vera, I. Coll, D. Vidal, T. Llovet and A. Ruiz-Bremon. 1999. Emergence and dissemination of quinolone-resistant Escherichia coli in the community. Antimicrob. Agents. Chemother. 43: 2736-2741.
6. Gruneberg R.N. 1994. Changes in urinary pathogens and their antibiotic sensitivities, 1971-1992. J. Antimicrob. Chemother. 33 (Suppl. A): 1-8.
7. Gupta K., T.M. Hooton, C.L. Wobbe and W.E. Stamm. 1999. The prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among uropathogens causing acute uncomplicated cystitis in young women. Int. J. Antimicrob. Agents. 11: 305-308.
8. Gupta K., D. Scholes and W.E. Stamm. 1999. Increasing prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among uropathogens causing acute uncomplicated cystitis in women. J.A.M.A. 281: 736-738.
9. Guyot A., S.P. Barrett, E.J. Threlfalt, T. Hampton and T. Cheasty. 1999. Molecular epidemiology of multi-resistant Escherichia coli. J. Hosp. Infect. 43: 39-48.
10. Hsueh P.R., M.L. Chen, C.C. Sun, W.H. Chen, H.J. Pan, L.S. Yang, S.C. Chang, S.W. Ho, C.Y. Lee, W.C. Hsieh and K.T. Luh. 2002. Antimicrobial drug resistance in pathogens causing nosocomial infections at a university hospital in Taiwan, 1981-1999. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 8: 63-68.
11. Lepelletier D., N. Caroff, A. Reynaud and H. Richet. 1999. Escherichia coli: epidemiology and analysis of risk factors for infections caused by resistant strains. Clin. Infect. Dis. 29: 548-552.
12. Livermore DM. 1995. β-lactamases in laboratory and clinical resistance. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 8: 557-584.
13. National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. Performance standards for antimicrobial disc susceptibility tests: tentative standards, vol. 3, No. 24, NCCLS document M2-A5. Villanova, Pa National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, 1993.
14. Okeke I.N., S.T. Fayinka and A. Lamikanra. 2000. Antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli from Nigerian students, 1986-1998. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 6: 393-396.
15. Perrin M., P.Y. Donnio, C. Heurtin-Lecorre, M.F. Travert and J-L. Avril. 1999. Comparative antimicrobial resistance and genomic of Escherichia coli isolated from urinary tract infections in the community and in hospitals. J. Hosp. Infect. 41: 273-279.
16. Sotto A., C.M.D. Boever, P. Fabbro-Peray, A. Gouby, D. Sirot and J. Jourdani. 2001. Risk factors for antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli isolated from hospitalized patients with urinary tract infections: a prospective study. J. Clin. Microbiol. 39: 438-444.