Multidrug-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 in south Asia

Lancet Infect Dis. 2003 Dec;3(12):755. doi: 10.1016/s1473-3099(03)00829-6.

Authors

S K Bhattacharya¹, K Sarkar, G Balakrish Nair, A S G Faruque, David A Sack

Affiliation

¹ National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Beliaghata, Kolkata, India.

PMID: 14652200
DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(03)00829-6

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Asia / epidemiology
Disease Outbreaks*
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial*
Dysentery, Bacillary / epidemiology*
Dysentery, Bacillary / microbiology
Humans
Shigella dysenteriae / classification
Shigella dysenteriae / isolation & purification
Shigella dysenteriae / pathogenicity*