High resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to paromomycin, an agent used for selective bowel decontamination (SBD)

• Main Authors: Daxboeck, Florian (Author), Rabitsch, Werner (Author), Stadler, Maria (Author), Assadian, Ojan (Author), Leitgeb, Johannes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House, 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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[english] Background: Paromomycin is used for selective bowel decontamination (SBD) in patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation in many hospitals, but there are no published resistance data for this compound in the recent medical literature. The aim of this study was to investigate the in vit...