Clustering of antibiotic resistance of E. coli in couples: Suggestion for a major role of conjugal transmission

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lietzau, Susanne ^a   Raum, Elke ^a,b   von Baum, Heike ^c   Marre, Reinhard ^c   Brenner, Hermann ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON AGEING   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFPODOXIME PROXETIL; CEFUROXIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SPOUSE;

ADULT; AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 33747278392     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-6-119     Document Type: Article

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