Impact of antibiotic resistance and of adequate empirical antibiotic treatment in the prognosis of patients with Escherichia coli bacteraemia | Zendy

Galo Peralta | Zendy; M. B. Sanchez | Zendy; José C. Garrido | Zendy; Inés de Benito | Zendy; M.E. Cano | Zendy; Luis MartínezMartínez | Zendy; María Pía Roiz Mesones | Zendy

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Impact of antibiotic resistance and of adequate empirical antibiotic treatment in the prognosis of patients with Escherichia coli bacteraemia

Author(s) -

Galo Peralta,

M. B. Sanchez,

José C. Garrido,

Inés de Benito,

M.E. Cano,

Luis MartínezMartínez,

María Pía Roiz Mesones

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/dkm279

Subject(s) - antibiotics , medicine , septic shock , antibiotic resistance , bacteremia , retrospective cohort study , sepsis , confounding , confidence interval , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Escherichia coli is the most frequent Gram-negative organism causing bacteraemia. There are few data about prognostic factors of bloodstream infections due to E. coli. In particular, the consequences of antibiotic resistance and of adequate empirical antibiotic treatment on outcome remain broadly unknown.

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