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SUBMITTER: Boumghar-Bourtchai L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2600399 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Boumghar-Bourtchai Leyla L Mariani-Kurkdjian Patricia P Bingen Edouard E Filliol Ingrid I Dhalluin Anne A Ifrane Shadia Ait SA Weill François-Xavier FX Leclercq Roland R
Emerging infectious diseases 20080801 8
Shigella sonnei UCN59, isolated during an outbreak of S. sonnei in January 2007, was resistant to azithromycin (MIC 64 mg/L). The isolate contained a plasmid-borne mph(A) gene encoding a macrolide 2 -phosphotransferase that inactivates macrolides. Emergence of the mph(A) gene in S. sonnei may limit usefulness of azithromycin for treatment of shigellosis. ...[more]