Emergence of a new multidrug-resistant serotype X variant in an epidemic clone of Shigella flexneri

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 419-426

  Ye, Changyun ^a   Lan, Ruiting ^b   Xia, Shengli ^c   Zhang, Jin ^c   Sun, Qiangzheng ^a   Zhang, Shaomin ^a   Jing, Huaiqi ^a   Wang, Lei ^d   Li, Zhenjun ^a   Zhou, Zhemin ^d   Zhao, Ailan ^a   Cui, Zhigang ^a   Cao, Jingjing ^a   Jin, Dong ^a   Huang, Lili ^c   Wang, Yiting ^a   Luo, Xia ^a   Bai, Xuemei ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Wang, Ping ^a   Xu, Qiang ^e   Xu, Jianguo ^a   more..

^a National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Suixian Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GATIFLOXACIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIMENTIN;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLYCOSYLATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROPHAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROTYPING; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI 2A;

EID: 75649092985     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00614-09     Document Type: Article

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