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Published on: May 30, 2017
Fluoroquinolone-resistant Vibrio cholerae isolated during a cholera outbreak in India
B V S Krishna1, Asha B Patil, M R Chandrasekhar
1Department of Microbiology, Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubli 580022, India. bvsk@yahoo.com
Abstract:
During the cholera epidemic of 2002 in and around Hubli, south India, Vibrio cholerae strains resistant to fluoroquinolones were isolated. Among the isolates of V. cholerae non-O1, non-O139 serogroups, 55.9% and 47.1% were resistant to norfloxacin and ciprofloxacin, respectively. However, only 12.5% of the O1 serogroup strains were resistant to both norfloxacin and ciprofloxacin. Though the O139 serogroup strains were susceptible to these antibiotics, they exhibited multidrug resistance. Emergence of fluoroquinolone-resistant V. cholerae that also exhibited multidrug resistance is of great significance in the epidemiology and control of cholera.
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