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Abstract

SUMMARY

Antibiotic-resistance patterns of causing urinary-tract infections contracted outside hospital were studied in 1962–63 and 1968–69. There was a slight but statistically significant increase in resistance over this period. The resistance was, in most instances, transferable.

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