Table 5.
Setting, Core Drug | Initially Susceptible (A) | DST not Performed | Susceptible £ | Acquired Resistance (B) | Acquired Resistance per 1000 |
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(B/A)*1000 | |||||
Bangladesh, Niger, Cameroon, GFX [23] | 859 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Bangladesh, Niger, Cameroon, LFX [23] | 203 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9.9 |
Bangladesh, Niger, Cameroon, MFX [23] | 228 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 17.5 |
West/Central Africa $, MFX [12] | 571 | 25 | 8 | 8 | 14.0 |
STREAM, MFX h [13] | 246 | NA | NA | 5 | 20.3 |
NA: data not available. GFX: gatifloxacin; MFX: moxifloxacin; LFX: levofloxacin: the “h” after the name of the drug means high dosage. # Recurrence: either treatment failure or relapse. $ Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, CAR, Cote d’Ivoire, DRC, Rwanda, Niger. £ Patients who failed or relapsed with strains still susceptible to fluoroquinolone.