E. coli literature references

HPA Health Protection Report publications of E. coli infections are listed under the voluntary surveillance and mandatory surveillance pages.

General bacteraemia publications can be found on the bacteraemia references page.

• Woodford N, et al. Wide geographic spread of diverse acquired AmpC beta-lactamases among Escherichia coli and Klebsiella spp. in the UK and Ireland. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2006 Nov 6; [Epub ahead of print]
• Woodford N, et al. Molecular epidemiology of multiresistant Escherichia coli isolates from community-onset urinary tract infections in Cornwall, England. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2006 Nov 6; [Epub ahead of print]
• Livermore DM, et al. Ciprofloxacin-resistant Escherichia coli from bacteraemias in England; increasingly prevalent and mostly from men. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2003; 52:1040-2.
• Livermore DM, et al. Are routine sensitivity test data suitable for the surveillance of resistance? Resistance rates amongst Escherichia coli from blood and CSF from 1991-1997, as assessed by routine and centralized testing. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2000; 45:205-11.