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Poor clinical outcomes associated with community-onset urinary tract infections due to extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.

Judith A AnesiEbbing LautenbachIrving NachamkinCharles GarriganWarren B BilkerJacqueline OmorogbeLois DankwaMary K WheelerPam TolomeoJennifer H Hannull null
Published in: Infection control and hospital epidemiology (2018)
Community-onset UTI due to an ESC-R EB organism is significantly associated with clinical failure, which may be due in part to IIAT. Further studies are needed to determine which patients in the community are at high risk for drug-resistant infection to help inform prompt diagnosis and appropriate antibiotic prescribing for ESC-R EB.
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