The Rise of Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Escherichia coli in the Community: Scarier Than We Thought

Affiliations

¹ Los Angeles County-University of Southern California (USC) Medical Center Division of Infectious Diseases, Keck School of Medicine at USC, Los Angeles, California.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania.

Editorial

Brad Spellberg et al. J Infect Dis. 2015.

. 2015 Dec 15;212(12):1853-5.

doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiv279. Epub 2015 May 12.

¹ Los Angeles County-University of Southern California (USC) Medical Center Division of Infectious Diseases, Keck School of Medicine at USC, Los Angeles, California.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania.

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Keywords: E. coli; antibiotic resistance; fluoroquinolone; transmission.

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