Volume 8, Number 5—May 2002
Correction
Correction, Vol. 8, No. 1
Table
Antibiotic sensitivity patterns for three enterobacteria isolated from patients with HIV-related persistent diarrhea in Zambia
| Antimicrobial agenta | Nontyphoidal salmonellae |
Shigella flexneri |
Shigella dysenteriae |
|---|---|---|---|
| No. sensitive (%) | No. sensitive (%) | No. sensitive (%) | |
| Tetracycline | 37 (23) | 2 (6) | 3 (16) |
| Chloramphenicol | 36 (23) | 7 (23) | 8 (42) |
| Gentamicin | 119 (75) | 24 (77) | 18 (95) |
| Sulphamethoxazole-trimethoprim | 25 (16) | 3 (10) | 0 (0) |
| Amoxycillin | 74 (47) | 9 (29) | 7 (37) |
| Amoxycillin-clavulanic acid | 95 (60) | 27 (87) | 12 (63) |
| Cephalexin | 105 (66) | 23 (74) | 17 (89) |
| Cefuroxime | 93 (59) | 11 (35) | 16 (84) |
| Cefotaxime | 149 (94) | 28 (90) | 19 (100) |
| Nalidixic acid | 107 (68) | 31 (100) | 19 (100) |
| Ciprofloxacin | 157 (99) | 30 (97) | 18 (95) |
| Erythromycin | 22 (14) | 0 (0) | 4 (21) |
| Azithromycin | 64 (93) | 9 (100) | 19 (100) |
aOne hundred fifty-eight isolates of nontyphoidal salmonellae, 31 of S. flexneri, and 19 of S. dysenteriae were tested against all these antimicrobial agents, except for azithromycin, against which 69, 9 and 19 isolates were tested, respectively.
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