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Multiple drug-resistance in Shigella flexneri isolated from a patient with human immunodeficiency virus
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|November 1, 1987
Abstract:
Persistent shigellosis, due to Shigella flexneri resistant to multiple antibiotics, developed in a 40-yr-old homosexual man with human immunodeficiency virus infection. The Shigella strain demonstrated resistance to ampicillin, tetracycline, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Although Shigella flexneri isolates resistant to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole are uncommon in the United States, laboratories should monitor resistance patterns through routine in vitro susceptibility testing.