CTX-M: changing the face of ESBLs in Europe

M. Livermore, D.; Cantón, Rafael; Gniadkowski, Marek; Nordmann, Patrice; María Rossolini, Gian; Arlet, Guillaume; A. Ayala, Juan; M. Coque, Teresa; Kern-Zdanowicz, Izabela; Luzzaro, Francesco; Poirel, Laurent; Woodford, N.

doi:10.1093/jac/dkl483

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CTX-M: changing the face of ESBLs in Europe

Published in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy • Nov 13, 2006

Authors:

D. M. Livermore

Rafael Cantón

Marek Gniadkowski

Abstract

Since around 2000 - earlier in Poland and Spain and later in France and the UK - dramatic shifts have occurred in the prevalence and types of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) in Europe. Before this watershed, most producers were nosocomial isolates, often Klebsiella spp. or Enterobacter spp...

Subject

Escherichia coli

Antibiotics

Microbiology

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