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Increasing trend of antibiotic resistance in Shigella in Bangladesh: a plasmid-mediated transfer of mphA macrolide resistance gene
2023-06-29
Abstract excerpt
Shigellosis remains a common gastrointestinal disease mostly in children <5 years of age in developing countries. Azithromycin (AZM), a macrolide, is currently the first-line treatment for shigellosis in Bangladesh; ciprofloxacin (CIP) and ceftriaxone (CRO) are also used frequently. We aimed to evaluate the current epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and mechanism(s) of increasing macrolide resistance i...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a81742b6-ad94-5480-8de1-c50e8502c384
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3080386/v1
