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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, July 2009, p. 3135-3137, Vol. 53, No. 7
0066-4804/09/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/AAC.00139-09
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Paul-Louis Woerther,1,
Abdoulaye Diop,2,3
Anne-Marie Sene,2,3
Annaelle Da Costa,4
Guillaume Arlet,4
Antoine Andremont,1 and
Bernard Rouveix3,5
EA3964 University Paris-Diderot Medical School and Associated National Reference Center for Antibiotic Resistance in Commensal Flora, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, AP-HP, Paris, France,1 Maison de Santé Pierre Fabre, Wassadou, Senegal,2 Association Le Kinkeliba, Paris, France,3 Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris University Medical School, Bacteriology Department, EA 2392, Paris, France,4 Clinical Pharmacology Department, Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, France5
Received 30 January 2009/ Returned for modification 15 March 2009/ Accepted 5 April 2009
Two out of 20 children with no known antibiotic exposure, living in a very remote Senegalese village, were found to be fecal carriers of a multiresistant Escherichia coli clone that produced CTX-M-15. This highlights the current massive spread of extended-spectrum β-lactamases, even in isolated communities.
Published ahead of print on 13 April 2009.
E.R. and P.-L.W. contributed equally to the present study.
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