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Multidrug-resistant Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coil O118:H16 in Latin America. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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August 1, 2003|
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To the Editor: We report the first isolation of a multiple antimicrobial drug-resistant strain of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O118:H16 from cattle in Latin America. The strain was isolated during a study of fecal STEC in 205 healthy and 139 diarrheic cattle on 12 beef farms in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in February 2000; one case of STEC was found in a 1-month-old calf with diarrhea. This bovine STEC O118:H16 strain showed resistance to eight antimicrobial substances; the following resistance (R)-genes were detected: ampicillin ([bla.sub.TEM1-like]), ...
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