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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2007 60(2):445; doi:10.1093/jac/dkm127
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© The Author 2007. 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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Comment on: Emergence of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria during selective decontamination of the digestive tract on an intensive care unit

F. Abecasis1, S. Kerr1, R. E. Sarginson1,*, L. Silvestri2, M. A. de la Cal3, D. Zandstra4, A. Beishuizen5, V. Damjanovic6 and H. K. F. van Saene7

1 Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK 2 Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Gorizia, Italy 3 Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital of Getafe, Getafe, Madrid, Spain 4 Department of Intensive Care, OLVG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5 Department of Intensive Care, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 6 Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 7 Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Liverpool and Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK

* Corresponding author. Tel: +44-151-252-5223; Fax: +44-151-252-5460; E-mail: richard.sarginson@rlc.nhs.uk

Keywords: tobramycin resistance , paromomycin , ESBLs

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Sir,

We read with interest the paper by Al Naiemi et al.1 claiming a link between the emergence of aerobic Gram-negative bacilli (AGNB), producing extended-spectrum ß-lactamase (ESBL), and selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD). In particular, the parenteral component of SDD, cefotaxime, is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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