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Volume 12, Number 6—June 2006
Research

Multidrug-resistant Commensal Escherichia coli in Children, Peru and Bolivia

Alessandro Bartoloni*Comments to Author , Lucia Pallecchi†, Marta Benedetti*, Connie Fernandez‡, Yolanda Vallejos§, Elisa Guzman¶, Ana Liz Villagran§, Antonia Mantella*, Chiara Lucchetti†, Filippo Bartalesi*, Marianne Strohmeyer*, Angela Bechini*, Herlan Gamboa§, Hugo Rodríguez‡, Torkel Falkenberg#, Göran Kronvall#, Eduardo Gotuzzo**, Franco Paradisi*, and Gian Maria Rossolini†
Author affiliations: *Università di Firenze, Florence, Italy; †Università di Siena, Siena, Italy; ‡Hospital Apoyo Yurimaguas, Yurimaguas–Loreto, Peru; §Servicio Departamental de Salud Santa Cruz, Camiri, Bolivia; ¶Hospital Moyobamba, Moyobamba–San Martin, Peru; #Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; **Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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Figure 2

Total prevalence, by age group, of fecal carriage of antimicrobial drug–resistant Escherichia coli among 3,174 children in 4 urban areas of Bolivia and Peru. Ceftriaxone and amikacin were not considered in these analyses because their resistance rates were too low.

Figure 2. Total prevalence, by age group, of fecal carriage of antimicrobial drug–resistant Escherichia coli among 3,174 children in 4 urban areas of Bolivia and Peru. Ceftriaxone and amikacin were not considered in these analyses because their resistance rates were too low.

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