Antibiotic-resistant strain of E. coli increasing among older adults and residents of nursing homes
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
Antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli (E. coli) continues to proliferate, driven largely by expansion of a strain of E. coli know as sequence type ST131. A new study points to hospitals and long-term care facilities as settings in which this antibiotic-resistant strain is increasingly found.