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Antibiotic resistance and genetic diversity of Shigella sonnei isolated from patients with diarrhoea between 1999 and 2003 in Bangladesh.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Sept 2006
Talukder Kaisar A, Islam Zhahirul, Dutta Dilip K, Islam M Aminul, Khajanchi Bijay K, Azmi Ishrat J, Iqbal Mohd S, Hossain M A, Faruque A S G, Nair G Balakrish, Sack David A
Abstract excerpt
Shigella sonnei is a significant cause of diarrhoeal infection in both developing and industrialized countries. From 1999 to 2003, 445 strains of Shigella sonnei were isolated from patients admitted to the diarrhoea treatment centre of the International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. More than 60% of the isolates were resistant to nalidixic acid, 89% to sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim and 9.5%...
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