High incidence of antimicrobial resistant organisms including extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in nasopharyngeal and blood isolates of HIV-infected children from Cape Town, South Africa

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cotton, Mark F ^a   Wasserman, Elizabeth ^a   Smit, Juanita ^a   Whitelaw, Andrew ^b   Zar, Heather J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; ISONIAZID; OXACILLIN; PLACEBO; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NASOPHARYNX; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; SOUTH AFRICA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ISONIAZID; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; NASOPHARYNX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 42549155173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-40     Document Type: Article

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