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Variation in Antibiotic Susceptibility of Uropathogens by Age among Ambulatory Pediatric Patients

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McGregor, Jessina C., Quach, Yennie, Bearden, David T., Smith, David H., Sharp, Susan E., and Guzman-Cottrill, Judith A.

Abstract:

We compared uropathogen antibiotic susceptibility across age groups of ambulatory pediatric patients. For Escherichia coli (n=5,099) and other Gram-negative rods (n=626), significant differences (p<0.05) existed across age groups for ampicillin, cefazolin, and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole susceptibility. In E. coli, differences in trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole susceptibility varied from 79% in children under 2 to 88%...

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etiology by age and by contraindications for some antibiotic classes in young children. A previous study