Reconsidering azithromycin disc diffusion interpretive criteria for Salmonellae in view of azithromycin MIC creep among typhoidal and nontyphoidal salmonella

Reconsidering azithromycin disc diffusion interpretive criteria for Salmonellae in view of azithromycin MIC creep among typhoidal and nontyphoidal salmonella

PURPOSE: Enteric fever continues to be an important public health challenge for the developing world. With the emergence of fluoroquinolone resistance in Salmonellae spp. azithromycin is increasingly being used for oral treatment of enteric fever. We investigated the antibiotic susceptibility patter...

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Main Authors: Sadia Khan, Parvathy Kurup, Vivek Vinod, Raja Biswas, Gopala Krishna Pillai, Anil Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of Laboratory Physicians
Subjects:
azithromycin disc diffusion
azithromycin resistant salmonella spp.
enteric fever
mpha gene
salmonella spp.
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/JLP.JLP_99_18

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