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Analysis of resistance to antimicrobials and presence of virulence/stress response genes in Campylobacter isolates from patients with severe diarrhoea.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Ghunaim Haitham, Behnke Jerzy M, Aigha Idil, Sharma Aarti, Doiphode Sanjay H, Deshmukh Anand, Abu-Madi Marawan M
Abstract excerpt
Campylobacter infections are a major cause of diarrhoea world-wide and two of the antimicrobials used for their control (erythromycin and ciprofloxacin) have been losing efficacy in recent years. In a sample of 174 genotyped isolates from the stools of patients with severe diarrhoea in Qatar, collected between 2005 and 2012, 63.2% showed resistance to ciprofloxacin, 8.6% to erythromycin, 0.57% to chloramphenicol...
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