Varying high levels of faecal carriage of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae in rural villages in Shandong, China: implications for global health.

Antibiotic resistance is considered a major threat to global health and is affected by many factors, of which antibiotic use is probably one of the more important. Other factors include hygiene, crowding and travel. The rapid resistance spread in Gram-negative bacteria, in particular extended-spectr...

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Main Authors: Qiang Sun, Maria Tärnberg, Lingbo Zhao, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Yanyan Song, Malin Grape, Maud Nilsson, Göran Tomson, Lennart E Nilsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4236142?pdf=render