| Literature DB >> 10459818 |
M Vromen1, A J van der Ven, A Knols, E E Stobberingh.
Abstract
The antibiotic resistance patterns of gram-negative bacteria isolated from nursing home patients between 1983 and 1997 were analysed. Escherichia coli was the most prevalent isolate (48%) followed by Proteus spp. (26%) and other Enterobacteriaceae (20%). During the study period, the susceptibility of E. coli decreased for co-trimoxazole (79% to 62%), increased for nitrofurantoin (79% to 91%) and remained unchanged for amoxycillin (41%). Susceptibility to norfloxacin, available from 1990, decreased from 87% to 71%. Similar trends were observed when the susceptibilities of all gram-negative urinary pathogens were combined. The changes in susceptibility can probably be attributed to the empirical prescribing practices in the nursing homes studied.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID： 10459818 DOI： 10.1093/jac/44.1.113
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Antimicrob Chemother ISSN： 0305-7453 Impact factor: 5.790