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Wide dissemination of multidrug-resistant Shigella isolates in China.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Nov 2011
Zhang Wenli, Luo Yanping, Li Jingyun, Lin Lan, Ma Yue, Hu Changqin, Jin Shaohong, Ran Lu, Cui Shenghui
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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance and selected antimicrobial resistance mechanisms in Shigella isolates recovered in outpatients from 1997 to 2009 in China. METHODS: The isolates were subjected to serotyping and antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Shigella isolates producing extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) or resistance to ciprofloxacin were further characterized by PFGE...
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