Re-emergence of multi-drug resistant Shigella dysenteriae with added resistance to ciprofloxacin in north India & their plasmid profiles

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 348-354

  Taneja, Neelam ^a   Lyngdoh, Valarie ^a   Vermani, Archa ^a   Mohan, Balwinder ^a   Rao, Pooja ^a   Singh, Malkit ^a   Dogra, Ashok ^a   Singh, Mini P ^a   Sharma, Meera ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Ciprofloxacin; Multi drug resistant Shigella dysenteriae; Plasmid profile; Re emergence

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FURAZOLIDONE; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSENTERY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INDIA; LYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SEROTYPE; SEROTYPING; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PLASMIDS; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

EID: 30744460122     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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