High prevalence of antimicrobial drug-resistant diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in asymptomatic children living in an urban slum.

Tamara B Souza; Mauro B Morais; Soraia Tahan; Ligia C F L Melli; Mirian S C Rodrigues; Isabel C A Scaletsky

doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2009.08.007

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High prevalence of antimicrobial drug-resistant diarrheagenic Escherichia coli in asymptomatic children living in an urban slum.

Authors

Souza, Tamara B¹
Morais, Mauro B
Tahan, Soraia
Melli, Ligia C F L
Rodrigues, Mirian S C
Scaletsky, Isabel C A

¹ Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, 04023-062, São Paulo, Brazil. , (Brazil)

Type

Published Article

Journal

The Journal of infection

Publication Date

October 2009

Volume

59

Issue

4

Pages

247–251

Identifiers

DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2009.08.007

PMID: 19706305

Source

Medline

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Unknown

Abstract

The high carriage status among the slum children point towards the widespread environment contamination in low socio-economic housing conditions, in conformance with the pediatric population at higher risk for developing DEC diarrhea.

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