Article
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 sho...
Topics
- Aged
- Conjugation, Genetic
- DNA Probes
- Dysentery, Bacillary
- Escherichia coli
- Humans
- Male
- Phenotype
- R Factors
- Restriction Mapping
- Serotyping
- Shigella dysenteriae
- Shigella flexneri
- Tetrahydrofolate Dehydrogenase
- Travel
- Trimethoprim Resistance
- Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination