The Carriage ofEscherichia coliResistant to Antimicrobial Agents by Healthy Children in Boston, in Caracas, Venezuela, and in Qin Pu, China

Abstract
The healthy members of a community represent its largest reservoir of bacteria resistant to antimicrobial agents. We compared the resistance to eight agents of Escherichia coli in stool samples from untreated, healthy children in cities on three continents.