title: Changing antibiotic sensitivity patterns in shigellosis.
abstract: Over five and a half months stool cultures were performed in 154 patients admitted with suspected bacillary dysentery to the Professorial Paediatric Unit of the Teaching Hospital, Galle. Thirty one patients had a positive stool culture; Shigella dysenteriae type 1 was isolated in 23 patients, and S flexneri in 8. In both groups the antibiotic sensitivity pattern was uniform, the only difference being S dysenteriae type 1 being resistant to nalidixic acid while S flexneri was sensitive. This antibiotic sensitivity pattern was different to that reported from Colombo during the same period. Complications were observed in some patients with S flexneri infection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine Galle.
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Lamabadusuriya
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Devasiri
authors.forename: U K
authors.initials: UK
authors.lastname: Jayantha
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Perera
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012762:Shigella dysenteriae / Q000187:drug effects*; D012763:Shigella flexneri / Q000187:drug effects*; D013188:Sri Lanka / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents