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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2006 57(3):577-578; doi:10.1093/jac/dki488
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Characterization of a clinical isolate of Haemophilus influenzae with a high level of fluoroquinolone resistance

J. M. Rodríguez-Martínez1,*, L. López2, I. García1 and A. Pascual1,2

1 School of Medicine, University of Seville, Seville, Spain; 2 Hospital Virgen Macarena, Seville, Spain

* Corresponding author. Tel: +34-954552863; Fax: +34-954177413; E-mail: jmrodriguez@us.es

Keywords: antibiotic resistance , susceptibility , ciprofloxacin

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Sir,

Haemophilus influenzae is one of the bacterial pathogens most likely to be involved in community-acquired respiratory infections in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In this species, resistance to fluoroquinolones occurs at very low frequency although in such cases treatment failure has been reported.1 In 2003, a fluoroquinolone-resistant H. influenzae isolate was recovered from the sputum of an 80-year-old male patient with a history . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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