High admission prevalence of fluoroquinolone resistance in third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in German university hospitals
Author(s) -
Anna M. Rohde,
Miriam WiesePosselt,
Janine Zweigner,
Frank Schwab,
Alexander Mischnik,
Harald Seifert,
Petra Gastmeier,
Winfried V. Kern,
Sabina Armean,
Michael Behnke,
Dirk H. Busch,
Susanne Feihl,
Gesche Först,
Federico Foschi,
Meyke Gillis,
Axel Hamprecht,
D. Hansen,
Georg Häcker,
Markus Heim,
Martin J. Hug,
Klaus Kaier,
Johannes K.M. Knobloch,
Axel Kola,
Marc-Fabian Küpper,
Georg Langebartels,
Andrea Liekweg,
HansPeter Lipp,
Mathias Nordmann,
Birgit Obermann,
Luis-Alberto Peña-Diaz,
Silke Peter,
Christiane Querbach,
Jan Rupp,
Christian Schneider,
C. Schröder,
Wiebke Schröder,
Katrin Spohn,
Michaela Steib–Bauert,
Evelina Tacconelli,
Jörg Janne Vehreschild,
Ulrich vor dem Esche,
Mathias Willmann
Publication year - 2018
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/dky040
Subject(s) - medicine , cephalosporin , enterobacteriaceae , ciprofloxacin , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , escherichia coli , biochemistry , gene
Fluoroquinolone resistance (FQR) in third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (3GCRE) presents serious limitations to antibiotic therapy. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the FQR proportion among 3GCRE differs between community-acquired (CA) and hospital-acquired (HA) isolates.
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