title: Outbreak of dysentery due to nalidixic acid resistant S. dysenteriae 1 at Agartala, Tripura: a hospital based study.
abstract: During the epidemic of bacillary dysentery at Agartala, Tripura, a total of 62 hospitalized patients suffering from diarrhoeal diseases were studied during the later part (11-16 June, 1988) of the epidemic. Principal features of Shigellosis cases were discussed. Of these 62 cases investigated, 19(30.6%) cases had the mucoid diarrhoea. From them S.dysenteriae type 1 and S.flexneri had been recovered from 31.6% and 10.5% cases, respectively. All the strains of S.dysenteriae type 1 isolated during the period of investigation were resistant to nalidixic acid.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases Calcutta.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Datta
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sen
mesh_terms: D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D004405:Dysentery, Bacillary / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D009268:Nalidixic Acid / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012762:Shigella dysenteriae
chemical_list: D009268:Nalidixic Acid