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Multicenter Study
. 2009 Aug;30(8):790-3.
doi: 10.1086/599070.

Epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance among gram-negative organisms recovered from patients in a multistate network of long-term care facilities

Ebbing Lautenbach  1 , Roseann Marsicano, Pam Tolomeo, Michael Heard, Steve Serrano, Donald D Stieritz
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Multicenter Study

Epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance among gram-negative organisms recovered from patients in a multistate network of long-term care facilities

Ebbing Lautenbach et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2009 Aug.

Abstract

We identified 1,805 gram-negative organisms in cultures of urine samples obtained over a 10-month period from residents of 63 long-term care facilities. The prevalence of fluoroquinolone resistance in Escherichia coli was 51% (446 of 874 isolates), whereas the prevalences of ceftazidime and imipenem resistance in Klebsiella species were 26% and 6% (84 and 19 of 323 isolates), respectively. The prevalence of resistance varied significantly by facility type, size, and geographic location.

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