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Quinolone-resistant Shigella flexneri isolated in a patient who travelled to India.
Annals of laboratory medicine - 1 Sept 2012
Jeon You La, Nam You-sun, Lim Gayoung, Cho Sun Young, Kim Yun-Tae, Jang Ji-Hyun, Kim Junyoung, Park Misun, Lee Hee Joo
Abstract excerpt
We report a recent case in which ciprofloxacin-resistant Shigella flexneri was isolated from a 23-yr-old female patient with a history of travel to India. Prior to her admission to our internal medicine department, she experienced symptoms of high fever and generalized weakness from continuous watery diarrhea that developed midway during the trip. S. flexneri was isolated from the stool culture. Despite initial...
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