Prevalence and characterization of beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli isolates from a tertiary care hospital in India

BACKGROUND: The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence and characterize the resistance profiles of Escherichia coli isolated from various clinical specimens by various phenotypic and genotypic methods. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 196 consecutive, nonduplicate strains o...

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Main Authors: Aishwarya Govindaswamy, Vijeta Bajpai, Surbhi Khurana, Anjana Aravinda, Priyam Batra, Rajesh Malhotra, Purva Mathur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2019-04-01
Series:Journal of Laboratory Physicians
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/JLP.JLP_122_18