Table. Antimicrobial drug resistance of Shigella spp., Papua New Guinea, 2000–2009*.
| Drug | Total no. isolates tested | Sensitivity |
Shigella sp., no. (%) isolates |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. boydi | S. dysenteriae | S. flexneri | S. sonneii | Unknown sp. | Total | |||
| Amoxicillin |
98 |
S | 0 | 1 (33) | 2 (2) | 0 | 1 (100) | 4 (4) |
| R |
3 (100) |
2 (67) |
87 (98) |
2 (100) |
0 |
94 (96) |
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| Cephalexin |
46 |
S | 2 (67) | 2 (100) | 38 (100) | 2 (100) | 1 (100) | 45 (98) |
| I | 1 (33) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (2) | ||
| R |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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| Ciprofloxacin |
41 |
S | 2 (67) | NA | 35 (100) | 1 (100) | 2 (100) | 40 (98) |
| I | 1 (33) | NA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (2) | ||
| R |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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| Chloramphenicol |
114 |
S | 0 | 2 (50) | 9 (9) | 2 (100) | 1 (50) | 14 (12) |
| I | 0 | 2 (50) | 28 (28) | 0 | 1 (50) | 31 (27) | ||
| R |
4 (100) |
0 |
64 (63) |
0 |
0 |
68 (60) |
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| Naladixic acid |
13 |
S | 1 (100) | 0 | 8 (100) | 1 (100) | 1 (50) | 11 (85) |
| R |
0 |
1 (100) |
0 |
0 |
1 (50) |
2 (15) |
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| Co-trimoxazole | 76 | S | 1 (25) | 1 (33) | 9 (14) | 0 | 0 | 11 (14) |
| R | 3 (75) | 2 (67) | 57 (86) | 2 (100) | 1 (100) | 65 (86) | ||
*S, sensitive; R, resistant, I, intermediate; NA, not applicable.