Volume 12, Number 6, June 2006

Multidrug-resistant Commensal Escherichia coli in Children, Peru and Bolivia

Alessandro Bartoloni,* Lucia Pallecchi,† Marta Benedetti,* Connie Fernandez,‡ Yolanda Vallejos,§ Elisa Guzman,¶ Ana Liz Villagran,§ Antonia Mantella,* Chiara Lucchetti,† Filippo Bartalesi,* Marianne Strohmeyer,* Angela Bechini,* Herlan Gamboa,§ Hugo Rodríguez,‡ Torkel Falkenberg,# Göran Kronvall,# Eduardo Gotuzzo,** Franco Paradisi,* and Gian Maria Rossolini†
*Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy; †Università di Siena, Siena, Italy; ‡Hospital Apoyo Yurimaguas, Yurimaguas–Loreto, Peru; §Servicio Departamental de Salud Santa Cruz, Camiri, Bolivia; ¶Hospital Moyobamba, Moyobamba–San Martin, Peru; #Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; and **Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Figure 2. Total prevalence, by age group, of fecal carriage of antimicrobial drug–resistant Escherichia coli among 3,174 children in 4 urban areas of Bolivia and Peru. Ceftriaxone and amikacin were not considered in these analyses because their resistance rates were too low.

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