Abstract
A 6-week surveillance study was performed to determine the prevalence of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia intestinal colonization among patients hospitalized in an oncology unit who developed diarrhea. Ninety-two stool samples obtained from 41 patients were cultured, and 4 patients (4 [9.5%] of 41 patients) had cultures that were positive for S. maltophilia. After controlling for duration of diarrhea, patients colonized with S. maltophilia had received a greater number of different types of antibiotics than noncolonized patients (5 vs. 3 different drugs; P = .04).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1131-1135 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Clinical Infectious Diseases |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| State | Published - Oct 15 2003 |