A multinational survey of risk factors for infection with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacteriaceae in nonhospitalized patients.

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Published in Clin Infect Dis on September 01, 2009

Authors

Ronen Ben-Ami1, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Hande Arslan, Johann D D Pitout, Claudine Quentin, Esther S Calbo, Ozlem K Azap, Corinne Arpin, Alvaro Pascual, David M Livermore, Javier Garau, Yehuda Carmeli

Author Affiliations

1: Infectious Diseases Unit and the 2Division of Epidemiology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. rbenami@mdanderson.org <rbenami@mdanderson.org>

Associated clinical trials:

Risk-factors for Multidrug-resistant Bacteria Colonization Among Patients at High Risk of STIs (BMR-IST) | NCT03767374

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