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In vivo R-plasmid transfer in a patient with a mixed infection of shigella dysentery.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Apr 1994
Bratoeva M P, John J F
Abstract excerpt
Transfer of shigella R-plasmids in vivo has seldom been demonstrated. Strains of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 and Shigella flexneri type 5b were isolated from a Bulgarian traveller who visited Vietnam and developed dysentery, which was treated with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMZ) for a short time. Both species of shigellae are unusual in Bulgaria where strains of S. sonnei predominate. Both shigella...
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