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

BACKGROUND: There is little information on nasopharyngeal (NP) flora or bacteremia in HIV-infected children. Our aim was to describe the organisms and antimicrobial resistance patterns in children enrolled in a prospective study comparing daily and three times weekly trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (T...

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Autores principales: Cotton, Mark F, Wasserman, Elizabeth, Smit, Juanita, Whitelaw, Andrew, Zar, Heather J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2329621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18380900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-8-40

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