Volume 13, Number 10—October 2007
Dispatch
Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Neisseria meningitidis, Delhi, India
Smita Singhal*, Kedar P. Purnapatre*, Vandana Kalia*, Smita Dube*, Deepti Nair†, Monorama Deb†, Pushpa Aggarwal‡, Sunil Gupta§, Dilip J. Upadhyay*, Awdhesh Kalia¶, and V. Samuel Raj*
Table
Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of Neisseria meningitidis isolates from the recurrent outbreak during January– March 2006, Delhi, India*
| Isolate | MIC (μg/mL) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PEN | CRO | RIF | CIP | GAT | MXF | LVX | SPX | NOR | NAL | |
| SFDJ M-1 | 0.125 | 0.008 | 0.004 | 0.125 | 0.03 | 0.125 | 0.125 | 0.06 | 0.125 | >16 |
| SFDJ M-2 | 0.125 | 0.008 | 0.004 | 0.25 | 0. 25 | 0.125 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.25 | >16 |
| SFDJ 691 | 0.03 | <0.001 | 0.125 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.5 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.5 | >16 |
| SFDJ 306 | 0.03 | 0.008 | 0.008 | 0.125 | 0.06 | 0.125 | 0.25 | 0.06 | 0.25 | >16 |
| SFDJ 651 | 0.06 | 0.002 | 0.03 | 0. 5 | 0.125 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.125 | 0.5 | >16 |
| SFDJ 568 | 0.125 | 0.002 | 0.06 | 0.25 | 0.125 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.125 | 0.5 | >16 |
| SFDJ 668 | 0.06 | 0.002 | 0.06 | 0.25 | 0.125 | 0.25 | 0.125 | 0.125 | 0.25 | >16 |
| SFDJ 270 | 0.125 | 0.008 | 0.015 | 0.125 | 0.06 | 0.125 | 0.125 | 0.125 | 0.25 | >16 |
| SFDJ MA-3 | 0.06 | 0.004 | 0.125 | 0.5 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | >16 |
| SFDJ 339 | 0.125 | <0.001 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | >16 |
| SFDJ 58 | 0.125 | 0.008 | 0.004 | 0.125 | 0.06 | 0.125 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.25 | >16 |
*PEN, penicillin; CRO, ceftriaxone; RIF, rifampin; CIP, ciprofloxacin; GAT, gatifloxacin; MFX, moxifloxacin; LVX, levofloxacin; SPX, sparfloxacin; NOR, norfloxacin; NAL, nalidixic acid.
