Antibiotic resistance in diarrheagenic Escherichia coli and Shigella strains isolated from children in Hanoi, Vietnam

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2005 Feb;49(2):816-9. doi: 10.1128/AAC.49.2.816-819.2005.

Abstract

The MICs for 162 diarrheagenic Escherichia coli strains and 28 Shigella strains were determined on the basis of NCCLS guidelines. More than 75% of the strains were resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol (53.6% of Shigella strains), and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Multiresistance was detected in 89.5% of E. coli strains and 78.6% of Shigella strains.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Ampicillin Resistance
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
  • Child
  • Chloramphenicol Resistance
  • Diarrhea / microbiology*
  • Drug Resistance
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial
  • Dysentery, Bacillary / microbiology*
  • Escherichia coli / drug effects*
  • Escherichia coli Infections / microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Shigella / drug effects*
  • Trimethoprim Resistance
  • Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination / pharmacology
  • Vietnam

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination