Genetic relatedness of ciprofloxacin-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 strains isolated in south Asia

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 730-734

  Talukder, Kaisar A ^a   Khajanchi, Bijay K ^a   Islam, M Aminul ^a   Dutta, Dilip K ^a   Islam, Zhahirul ^a   Safa, Ashrafus ^a   Khan, G Y ^a   Alam, Khorshed ^a   Hossain, M A ^a   Malla, Sarala ^b   Niyogi, S K ^c   Rahman, Mustafizur ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^d   Nair, G Balakrish ^a   Sack, David A ^a  

^a ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^b National Public Health Laboratory   (Nepal)

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

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemics; gyrA; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; QRDRs

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) A; MECILLINAM; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BANGLADESH; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; INDIA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SOUTH ASIA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASIA; CIPROFLOXACIN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA GYRASE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

EID: 6344228563     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkh425     Document Type: Article

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