Volume 6, Number 4—August 2000
Dispatch
Drug-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serotype Paratyphi A in India
Dinesh S. Chandel, Rama Chaudhry
, Benu Dhawan, Anita Pandey, and Aparajit B. Dey
, Benu Dhawan, Anita Pandey, and Aparajit B. DeyTable
Resistance pattern and ciprofloxacin MIC of Salmonella Paratyphi A isolates, New Delhi, India, 1996-1999
| Drug-resistance pattern |
Ciprofloxacin MIC |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cl | Cz | Ax | Cp | Cl+ | Cl+ | Total | Range | Total | ||
| Cz | Cz+ | (%) | (mg/L) | (%) | ||||||
| Year | Strains (n) | Ax | ||||||||
| 1996 | 10 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 (10) | <0.0025 | - |
| 1997 | 16 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 (18) | <0.045 | - |
| 1998 | 57 | - | 11 | - | - | - | 3 | 14 (24) | 0.25-1.5 | 12 (21) |
| 1999a | 22 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 3 | 10 (45) | 2.0 | 7 (32) |
auntil July 1999.
- = sensitive range; Cl=chloramphenicol; Cz=cotrimoxazole; Ax=amoxicillin; Cp=ciprofloxacin.
