Resumen

GARCIA, Coralith, ASTOCONDOR, Lizeth y BANDA, Claudia. Enterobacterias productoras de -lactamasas de espectro extendido: Situación en América Latina y en el Perú. Acta méd. peruana, jul./set. 2012, vol.29, no.3, p.163-169. ISSN 1728-5917.

Enterobacteriaceae, particularly E. coli and Klebsiella spp. show an increasing resistance to cephalosporins all over the world. There very few studies in Peru about this situation. This paper tries to perform a scientific evidence based review about this increasingly serious problem.

Palabras llave: Enterobacteriaceae; Enterobacteriaceae Infections; cephalosporins; drug resistance; microbial.