Article
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
Abstract excerpt
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 isola...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Base Sequence
- Cephalosporins
- China
- Ciprofloxacin
- Clavulanic Acids
- DNA Gyrase
- DNA Topoisomerase IV
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
- Dysentery, Bacillary
- Enterobacteriaceae Infections
- Gene Transfer, Horizontal
- Humans
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Mutation
- Quinolones