エチオピアにおける手術部位感染患者の間における拡張スペクトルベータ・ラクタマース産生グラム陰性細菌の分子疫学:多センター前向き研究

Seble Worku1,2,3, Tamrat Abebe4, Alemseged Abdissa5

  • 1Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. workuseble@ymail.com.

BMC infectious diseases
|September 1, 2025
PubMed
まとめ

グラム陰性細菌を生成する拡張スペクトルベータ・ラクタメーゼ (ESBL) は,公衆衛生上の重大な懸念事項である. この研究では,エチオピアの手術部位感染でESBLを産生するGNBの高い割合が確認され,抗菌管理の改善の必要性を強調した.

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