Search Tag: expanded-spectrum cephalosporins

ICU Management

Transmission-of-antibiotic-resistant-enterobacteriaceae-in-icus

2017 17 Oct

In an international study in 13 European intensive care units using protocolised surveillance and microbiological analysis, the transmission capacity of bacteria resistant to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins (ESCs) was 3.7 times higher for non-Escherichia coli Enterobacteriaceae (mainly Klebsiella pneumoniae) than for E. coli. The study findings are...Read more