Review Article
ESBLs: A Clear and Present Danger?
| | Community onset | Hospital onset, particularly ITU |
| Organism | E. coli | Klebsiella spp | Type of ESBL | CTX-M | SHV,TEM | Type of infection | Usually UTIs, but also bacteraemia and GI infection | Bacteraemia, intra-abdominal, and respiratory and urinary infection | Molecular epidemiology | Isolates not always related | Isolates usually related, that is, outbreak |
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