Incidence and clinical impact of fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli in the faecal flora of cancer patients treated with high dose chemotherapy and ciprofloxacin prophylaxis. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • This study evaluated the susceptibility of Escherichia coli to quinolones in 72 stool samples collected from 31 patients with solid tumours who had undergone high dose chemotherapy (HDC) and peripheral blood stem-cell (PBSC) rescue with ciprofloxacin prophylaxis. Samples were obtained at admission, after completing prophylaxis and three months later. All E. coli strains isolated from baseline samples were susceptible to quinolones. Fluoroquinolone-resistant E. coli strains were isolated in 10 (32%) patients in the second sample. In eight of these patients isolates were susceptible 3 months later. No patient developed infection due to fluorquinolone-resistant E. coli. No differences were observed in outcome between patients with susceptible and resistant flora.

publication date

  • July 1, 1999

Research

keywords

  • Anti-Infective Agents
  • Antibiotic Prophylaxis
  • Ciprofloxacin
  • Escherichia coli
  • Feces
  • Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0032837575

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1093/jac/44.1.117

PubMed ID

  • 10459819

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 44

issue

  • 1