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Effect of excluding duplicate isolates of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus in a 14 year consecutive database

Author(s) -

Martin Sundqvist,

Gunnar Kahlmeter

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkm040

Subject(s) - staphylococcus aureus , escherichia coli , microbiology and biotechnology , antibiotic resistance , biology , drug resistance , antibiotics , bacteria , database , medicine , genetics , computer science , gene

It is recommended that duplicate isolates are excluded when reporting resistance rates. The rationale for this is that failing to do so will yield falsely high resistance rates. We analysed a 14 year consecutive database of Escherichia coli (n=62,380) and Staphylococcus aureus (n=28,178) using various cut-off algorithms to determine the importance of excluding duplicates and principal differences between the bacteria.

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