Clinical Infectious Diseases
04/10/2002
By James Adams
A large number of children residing in two pediatric long-term care facilities in the United States were found to be positive for one or more antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacillus.
These results are reported by investigators from the Department of Pediatrics at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital of the University Hospitals of Cleveland and the Department of Medicine at Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Administration Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
The investigators took pharyngeal and rectal specimens from patients residing in the facilities, testing for gram-negative organisms with resistance to ceftazidime, gentamicin, meropenem and piperacillin-tazobactam. All of the resistant isolates were analyzed by pulse-field gel electrophoresis in order to determine horizontal transmission.
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