Drug resistance and R factors in the bowel bacteria of London patients before and after admission to hospital.

British medical journal ·Vol. 2 ·No. 5654 ·1969-05-17 ·Pages 407-11

Datta N

Abstract

The content of drug-resistant coliform bacteria in faecal specimens collected before admission from patients awaiting non-urgent surgery were compared with specimens collected in hospital. Resistant strains of Escherichia coli were isolated from 52% of preadmission specimens and were present in large numbers in 28%. Tetracycline, sulphonamide, and streptomycin resistance were commonest: 60% of resistant strains carried transmissible R factors and multiple resistance was commoner than single. No characteristically resistant intestinal bacteria of any genera were found in hospital specimens as compared with those from outside.

MeSH Terms

Adolescent Adult Aged Drug Resistance, Microbial Enterobacteriaceae/isolation & purification Escherichia coli/isolation & purification Feces/microbiology Female Hospitalization Humans Intestines/microbiology Klebsiella/isolation & purification London Male Middle Aged Proteus/isolation & purification Pseudomonas aeruginosa/isolation & purification Streptomycin/pharmacology Sulfonamides/pharmacology Tetracycline/pharmacology

Chemicals

Sulfonamides Tetracycline Streptomycin

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Datta N

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Article Info

Journal

British medical journal

Abbr.

Br Med J

ISSN

0007-1447

DOI

10.1136/bmj.2.5654.407

Published

1969-05-17

Pages

407-11

Language

English

Region

England

NLM ID

0372673

PMCID

PMC1983307

Subset

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.5654.407 PMC Full Text

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