High levels of drug resistance in commensal E. coli in a cohort of children from rural central India

Abstract The world is experiencing crisis of antibiotic resistance not only in pathogenic but also in commensal bacteria. We determine the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in commensal Escherichia coli in young children in rural setting of central India and search for its correlations with demogr...

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Main Authors: Manju Raj Purohit, Lars Falkdalen Lindahl, Vishal Diwan, Gaetano Marrone, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-43227-1