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. 2011 Nov;17(11):2072-4.
doi: 10.3201/eid1711.110403.

Foodborne-associated Shigella sonnei, India, 2009 and 2010

Suman Nandy, Shanta Dutta, Santanu Ghosh, Arindam Ganai, Jyothi Rajahamsan, Ramani Bai Josef Theodore, Nasira K Sheikh

Foodborne-associated Shigella sonnei, India, 2009 and 2010

Suman Nandy et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Nov.
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Digested pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) profiles of Shigella sonnei outbreak isolates, India (Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala; Kolhapur, Maharashtra), by cluster analysis and comparison with sporadic isolates (IDH). Thir, isolates from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala; Kolh, isolates from Ispurli, Shiroli Taluk, Kolhapur district, Maharashtra; IDH, isolates from Kolkata, West Bengal; R, resistance; T, tetracycline (30 µg); Q, co-trimoxazole (25 µg); Na, nalidixic acid (30 µg); Nf, norfloxacin (10 µg); Ci, ciprofloxacin (5 µg); Of, ofloxacin (5 µg); S, streptomycin (10 µg).
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