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. 2019 Dec 25;9(1):55. doi: 10.3390/jcm9010055

Table 5.

Acquired resistance to fluoroquinolone among initially susceptible cases #.

Setting, Core Drug Initially Susceptible (A) DST not Performed Susceptible £ Acquired Resistance (B) Acquired Resistance per 1000
(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.