TABLE 1.
Strains used for testing the susceptibility of MK-13.
| Name of organisms tested | No. of strains tested (n = 342) | No. of isolates susceptible to MK-13 | |
| Shigella (n = 294) | S. flexneri serotypes 1a, 1b, 1c, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, 4a, 5a, 5b, 6a, and 6b, type 4, and variants X, Y, and Z | 99 | 0 |
| S. boydii 1 | 10 | 10 | |
| S. boydii 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 3 | 2 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 4 | 6 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 5 | 3 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 7 | 5 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 8 | 8 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 9 | 2 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 10 | 5 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 11 | 7 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 12 | 10 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 13 | 6 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 14 | 11 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 15 | 8 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 16 | 2 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 18 | 5 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 19 | 1 | 0 | |
| S. boydii 20 | 2 | 0 | |
| S. dysenteriae types 1 to 4, 6, 8, 9, and 11 to 15 | 63 | 0 | |
| S. sonnei | 37 | 0 | |
| E. coli (n = 29) | ETEC | 9 | 0 |
| EPEC | 8 | 0 | |
| EAEC | 10 | 0 | |
| EHEC | 1 | 0 | |
| EIEC | 1 | 0 | |
| Salmonella (n = 13) | S. typhi | 4 | 0 |
| S. paratyphi | 7 | 0 | |
| Other Salmonella | 2 | 0 | |
| Vibrio cholera (n = 3) | 01 | 2 | 0 |
| 0139 | 1 | 0 | |
| Klebsiella (n = 1) | Kp-9 | 1 | 0 |
| Proteus (n = 1) | CF-53 | 1 | 0 |
| Yersinia (n = 1) | Bact U22 | 1 | 0 |