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Pefloxacin as a surrogate marker for quinolone susceptibility in Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi & Paratyphi A in India.
The Indian journal of medical research - 1 May 2017
Sharma Priyanka, Dahiya Sushila, Kumari Bhavana, Balaji Veeraraghavan, Sood Seema, Das Bimal Kumar, Kapil Arti
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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: The emergence of resistance to fluoroquinolones in enteric fever despite the pathogen being susceptible by in vitro laboratory results, led to repeated changes in Clinical and Laboratory Standard Institute (CLSI) guidelines for this class of antibiotics to have specific and sensitive interpretative criteria. In 2015, CLSI added pefloxacin disk diffusion criteria as a surrogate marker for...
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