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SUBMITTER: Lee HL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3744707 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Hyang-Lim HL Whang Dong-Hee DH Park Dong-Won DW Lee Young-Jin YJ Kim Yeong-Hoon YH Chin Ho-Jun HJ Kim Suhnggown S Koo Ho-Seok HS
Journal of Korean medical science 20130731 8
The prevalence of antibiotic resistance is higher in patients undergoing renal replacement therapy (RRT) than in patients who did not undergo RRT. We investigated the presence of KP (Klebsiella pneumoniae) in patients who underwent RRT. All data were collected retrospectively by accessing patient medical records from 2004 to 2011 for the culture results of all patients who were positive for KP. We grouped the patients by the presence of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) into a KP ESBL(-) grou ...[more]