Selective digestive tract decontamination and spread of colistin resistance: antibiotic prophylaxis is not a substitute for hygiene

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Clinics of Constance, Constance, Germany [email protected].
• ² Department of Infectious Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ³ Department of Clinical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, Munich University Hospital, Munich, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Tuebingen University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany.
• ⁵ Department of Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain.