Research Article
Multidrug-Resistant Shigellosis among Children Aged below Five Years with Diarrhea at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia
Table 2
Antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Shigella serogroups isolated.
| | Antibiotics | Susceptibility | Shigella serogroups | | Shigella dysenteriae type 1, n (%) | Shigella flexneri, n (%) | Shigella sonnei, n (%) |
| | AMP | S | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | | R | 5 (100) | 26 (100) | 6 (100) | | CIP | S | 5 (100) | 21 (80.8) | 3 (50) | | R | 0 (0) | 5 (19.2) | 3 (50) | | SXT | S | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | | R | 5 (100) | 26 (100) | 6 (100) | | CRO | S | 3 (60) | 16 (61.5) | 2 (33.3) | | R | 2 (40) | 10 (38.5) | 4 (66.7) | | TE | S | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | | R | 5 (100) | 26 (100) | 6 (100) | | AZM | S | 5 (100) | 26 (100) | 6 (100) | | R | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
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AMP: ampicillin (10 mg); TE: tetracycline (30 mg); CRO: ceftriaxone (30 mg); SXT: trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (co-trimoxazole) (25 mg); CIP: ciprofloxacin (5 mg); AZM: azithromycin (15 mg); S: susceptible; R: resistance.
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