Epidemiology of Invasive Escherichia coli Infection and Antibiotic Resistance Status Among Patients Treated in US Hospitals: 2009-2016.
Elizabeth BegierNing A RosenthalAlejandra GurtmanAlex KartashovRobert G K DonaldStephen P LockhartPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
This real-world study indicates a substantial burden of IEI and recurrent IEI exists in the United States, as well as increasing resistance to extended-spectrum cephalosporins. Future research should explore risk factors of recurrent IEI aiming to effectively prevent such infections.