Antimicrobial Resistance Incidence and Risk Factors among Helicobacter pylori–Infected Persons, United States
William M. Duck*, Jeremy Sobel*, Janet M. Pruckler*, Qunsheng Song*, David L. Swerdlow*, Cindy R. Friedman*, Alana Sulka*, Balasubra Swaminathan*, Tom Taylor*, Mike Hoekstra*, Patricia M. Griffin*, Duane Smoot†, Rick Peek‡, DavidC. Metz§, Peter B. Bloom¶, Steven Goldschmid¶, Julie Parsonnet#, George Triadafilopoulos#, Guillermo I. Perez-Perez**, Nimish Vakil††, Peter Ernst‡‡, Steve Czinn§§, Donald Dunne§§, and Ben D. Gold*
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Howard University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA; ‡Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; §University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; ¶Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; #Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, California, USA; **New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA; ††Sinai Samaritan Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; ‡‡University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; §§University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; ¶¶Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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Figure. Resistance of Helicobacter pylori isolates submitted to the Helicobacter pylori Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring Project, 1998–2002 (N = 347).1998, n = 7 isolates; 1999, n = 137 isolates; 2000, n = 117 isolates; 2001, n = 47 isolates; 2002, n = 39 isolates.
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