Characteristics of Multidrug Resistant Shigella and Vibrio cholerae O1 Infections in Patients Treated at an Urban and a Rural Hospital in Bangladesh

Table 1

Multidrug resistant (MDR) Shigella species recovered from patients in Dhaka and Matlab, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Bangladesh, 2000–2012.

Shigella spp.	Dhaka; 𝑛=371 (%)	Matlab, 𝑛=552 (%)	OR (95% CI) 𝑃 value
Shigella flexneri	257 (69)	495 (90)	0.26 (0.18, 0.37) <0.001
Shigella boydii	68 (18)	33 (6)	0.28 (0.18, 0.45) <0.001
Shigella sonnei	22 (6)	17 (3)	1.98 (0.99, 3.97) 0.051
Shigella dysenteriae 1	4 (1)	1 (0.2)	6.01 (0.63, 141.61) 0.016
Shigella dysenteriae	20 (5)	6 (1)	5.19 (1.95, 14.56) <0.001