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Open Access
01-05-2014 | Poster presentation
Trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole drug resistance with co resistance to extended spectrum β-lactam antibiotics among bacterial isolates from HIV patients
Authors:
Marimuthu Ragavan Rameshkumar, Nallusamy Vijaykanth, Ramachandran Vignesh, Pachamuthu Balakrishnan, Suniti Solomon, Narasingam Arunagirinathan
Published in:
BMC Infectious Diseases
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Special Issue 3/2014
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Excerpt
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) is a broad spectrum antimicrobial agent and also reduces the mortality among adults and children when used as prophylaxis against opportunistic infections in HIV infected patients. Drug resistant to TMP-SMX along with Extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) production among Enterobacteriaceae is creating major therapeutic problem in clinical settings for treating the bacterial infections among HIV individuals. …