Table 3.
Antimicrobial resistance of Shigella spp. isolated from stools associated with foodborne outbreaks occurred in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, between 2003 and 2007
| Antimicrobial resistance (%) of Shigella spp. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMP | T | GEN | NAL | CIP | C | S | SXT | K | |
| Sensitive | 12.08 | 26.84 | 83.22 | 89.26 | 96.64 | 42.28 | 7.38 | 16.78 | 22.82 |
| Intermediate resistance | 3.36 | 12.75 | 6.04 | 8.06 | 3.36 | 2.68 | 4.03 | 2.68 | 61.74 |
| Resistance | 84.56 | 60.40 | 10.74 | 2.68 | 0.00 | 55.04 | 88.59 | 80.53 | 15.44 |
ampicillin (AMP); tetracycline (T); gentamicin (GEN); nalidixic acid (NAL); ciprofloxacin (CIP); chloramphenicol (C); streptomycin (S); sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (SXT); kanamycin (K).