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Antibiotic resistance patterns of intestinal isolates from Nicaraguan children Free

Abstract

In developing countries, diarrhoeal diseases are one of the major causes of death in children under 5 years of age. It is known that diarrhoeagenic (DEC) is an important aetiological agent of infantile diarrhoea in Nicaragua. However, there are no recent studies on antimicrobial resistance among intestinal isolates in Nicaraguan children. The aim of the present study was to determine the antimicrobial resistance pattern in a collection of 727 intestinal isolates from the faeces of children in León, Nicaragua, between March 2005 and September 2006. All samples had been screened previously for the presence of DEC by multiplex PCR. Three hundred and ninety-five non-DEC isolates (270 from children with diarrhoea and 125 from children without diarrhoea) and 332 DEC isolates (241 from children with diarrhoea and 91 from children without diarrhoea) were analysed in this study. In general, antimicrobial resistance among the 727 intestinal isolates was high for ampicillin (60 %), trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole (64 %) and chloramphenicol (11 %). Among individual categories, enteroaggregative isolates from children with and without diarrhoea exhibited significantly higher levels of resistance (<0.05) to ampicillin and trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole compared to the other categories. Resistance to ceftazidime and/or ceftriaxone and a pattern of multi-resistance was related to CTX-M-5- or CTX-M-15-producing isolates. The results suggest that isolates from Nicaraguan children have not reached the high levels of resistance to the most common antibiotics used for diarrhoea treatment as in other countries.

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Keyword(s): DEC, diarrhoeagenic E. coli , EAEC, enteroaggregative E. coli , EHEC, enterohaemorrhagic E. coli , EIEC, enteroinvasive E. coli , EPEC, enteropathogenic E. coli , ESBL, extended-spectrum β-lactamase , ETEC, enterotoxigenic E. coli and RAPD, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA
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Antibiotic resistance patterns of intestinal Escherichia coli isolates from Nicaraguan children
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