Association of phylogenetic distribution and presence of integrons with multidrug resistance in Escherichia coli clinical isolates from children with diarrhoea

Background: Escherichia coli strains include both commensal and virulent clones distributed in different phylogenetic groups. Antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious public health threat at the global level and integrons are important mobile genetic elements involved in resistance dissem...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yesmi Patricia Ahumada-Santos, María Elena Báez-Flores, Sylvia Páz Díaz-Camacho, Magdalena de Jesús Uribe-Beltrán, Carlos Alberto Eslava-Campos, Jesús Ricardo Parra-Unda, Francisco Delgado-Vargas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-05-01
Series:Journal of Infection and Public Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876034119303648