High community faecal carriage rates of CTX-M ESBL-producing Escherichia coli in a specific population group in Birmingham, UK | Zendy

Nimal Wickramasinghe | Zendy; Li Xu | Zendy; Andrew Eustace | Zendy; S. Shabir | Zendy; Tarunpreet Saluja | Zendy; Peter M. Hawkey | Zendy

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High community faecal carriage rates of CTX-M ESBL-producing Escherichia coli in a specific population group in Birmingham, UK

Author(s) -

Nimal Wickramasinghe,

Li Xu,

Andrew Eustace,

S. Shabir,

Tarunpreet Saluja,

Peter M. Hawkey

Publication year - 2012

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/dks018

Subject(s) - carriage , population , microbiology and biotechnology , genotype , feces , multiplex polymerase chain reaction , pulsed field gel electrophoresis , medicine , biology , veterinary medicine , polymerase chain reaction , genetics , environmental health , pathology , gene

To determine the proportion of E. coli carrying specific CTX-M extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) genotypes in a community population of East and North Birmingham.

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