Drug Resistance and R Factors in the Bowel Bacteria of London Patients before and after Admission to Hospital
- 17 May 1969
- Vol. 2 (5654), 407-411
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.2.5654.407
Abstract
The content of drug-resistant coliform bacteria in faecal specimens collected before admission from patients awaiting non-urgent surgery were compared with specimens collected in hospital. Resistant strains of Escherichia coli were isolated from 52% of preadmission specimens and were present in large numbers in 28%. Tetracycline, sulphonamide, and streptomycin resistance were commonest: 60% of resistant strains carried transmissible R factors and multiple resistance was commoner than single. No characteristically resistant intestinal bacteria of any genera were found in hospital specimens as compared with those from outside.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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