Drug-resistant Diarrheogenic Escherichia coli, Mexico

Abstract

Diarrheogenic Escherichia coli isolates from 45 (73%) of 62 hospitalized patients were resistant to common antimicrobial drugs. Sixty-two percent were multidrug resistant, and >70% were resistant to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and ampicillin. Ciprofloxacin and cefotaxime were uniformly active. Effective and safe oral agents are needed to treat children with bacterial diarrhea.

Keywords

• Keywords: Pediatric Infectious Diseases/vaccines
• AOM
• bacterial respiratory infection
• S. pneumoniae
• antibiotic treatment
• antibiotic tr