Shifting serotypes, plasmid profile analysis and antimicrobial resistance pattern of shigellae strains isolated from Kolkata, India during 1995-2000

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 235-243

  Dutta, S ^a   Rajendran, K ^a   Roy, S ^a   Chatterjee, A ^b   Dutta, P ^a   Nair, G B ^a   Bhattacharya, S K ^a   Yoshida, S I ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FURAZOLIDONE; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PLASMID; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; SEROTYPING; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHIGELLOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; FECES; FEMALE; FURAZOLIDONE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NALIDIXIC ACID; PLASMIDS; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; SEROTYPING; SHIGELLA; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 0036773339     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268802007240     Document Type: Article

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