Volume 20, Number 4—April 2014
Dispatch
Salmonella Subtypes with Increased MICs for Azithromycin in Travelers Returned to the Netherlands
Table
Isolates with elevated MICs for ciprofloxacin and isolates with an MIC for azithromycin above that for wild type (>16 mg/L) in Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi and Paratyphi isolates collected in travelers returning to the Netherlands, 1999–2012
Region |
No. (%) isolates |
No. (%) isolates with elevated MICs |
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Azithromycin |
Ciprofloxacin |
Azithromycin and ciprofloxacin |
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All | 205 | 36 (17.6) | 83 (40.5) | 20 (9.8) |
Asia | 161 (78.5) | 31 (19.3) | 80 (49.7) | 20 (12.4) |
Southern Asia* | 84 (40.0) | 21 (25) | 69 (82.1) | 18 (21.4) |
South-Eastern Asia† | 44 (21.5) | 5 (12.2) | 3 (6.8) | 1 (2.3) |
Western Asia‡ | 27 (13.2) | 1 (3.7) | 6 (22.2) | 1 (3.7) |
Eastern Asia§ | 5 (2.4) | 1 (20) | 2 (40) | 0 |
Unknown | 1 (0.5) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Africa¶ | 35 (17.1) | 5 (14.3) | 1 (2.9) | 0 |
Europe** | 4 (2.0) | 0 | 2 (50) | 0 |
Latin America†† | 5 (2.4) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
*India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka.
†Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand.
‡Turkey, Iraq, Syria.
§China.
¶Morocco, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Malawi, Tanzania.
**Gibraltar (Great Britain), Greece, Italy, Romania.
††Peru, Mexico, unknown.