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Life-threatening infantile diarrhea from fluoroquinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica typhimurium with mutations in both gyrA and parC.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Feb 2003
Nakaya Hideo, Yasuhara Akihiro, Yoshimura Ken, Oshihoi Yukio, Izumiya Hidemasa, Watanabe Haruo
Abstract excerpt
Salmonella Typhimurium DT12, isolated from a 35-day-old infant with diarrhea, was highly resistant to ampicillin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, gentamycin, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, nalidixic acid, and fluoroquinolones. The patient responded to antibiotic therapy with fosfomycin. Multidrug-resistance may become prevalent in Salmonella infections in Japan, as shown in this first case of a...
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