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. 2004 Nov;10(11):1033-5.
doi: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2004.00982.x.

Increasing incidence of resistance to nalidixic acid in shigellas from humans in England and Wales: implications for therapy

T Cheasty  1 , M Day, E J Threlfall
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Increasing incidence of resistance to nalidixic acid in shigellas from humans in England and Wales: implications for therapy

T Cheasty et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2004 Nov.
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Abstract

Among shigellas isolated from patients in England and Wales in 2002, 10% of subgroups A, B and C, and 13% of subgroup D (Shigella sonnei), were resistant to nalidixic acid. As a consequence, should antimicrobial therapy be indicated, the efficacy of nalidixic acid as the preferred treatment for children with bacillary dysentery has been jeopardised.

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