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Fluoroquinolone resistance linked to both gyrA and parC mutations in the quinolone resistance-determining region of Shigella dysenteriae type 1.
Current microbiology - 1 Feb 2006
Talukder Kaisar A, Khajanchi Bijay K, Islam Mohammad A, Islam Zhahirul, Dutta Dilip K, Rahman Mustafizur, Watanabe Haruo, Nair Gopinath B, Sack David A
Abstract excerpt
We examined the quinolone resistance-determining region (QRDR) of gyrA, gyrB, and parC of recently isolated fluoroquinolone-resistant S. dysenteriae type 1 strains from south Asia and compared data with fluoroquinolone-susceptible strains associated with previous epidemics of 1978, 1984, and 1994. In fluoroquinolone-resistant strains, double mutations (Ser83-->Leu, Asp87-->Asn or Gly) and a single mutation...
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