The Journal of the Korean Society for Microbiology (대한미생물학회지)

The Korea Society for Microbiology (대한미생물학회)
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Antimicrobial Drug Resistance in Shigella cultures Isolated in Korea (1983)

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  • Jung, Tae-Hwoa (Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Health) ;
  • Lee, Myung-Won (Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Health) ;
  • Lee, Bok-Kwon (Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Health) ;
  • Kim, Ki-Sang (Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Health) ;
  • Lee, Hun-Goo (Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Health) ;
  • Lee, Yun-Tai (Department of Microbiology, Dankook University) ;
  • Hong, Sung-Ro (Department of Microbiology, Dankook University)
  • 정태화 (국립보건원 미생물부) ;
  • 이명원 (국립보건원 미생물부) ;
  • 이복권 (국립보건원 미생물부) ;
  • 김기상 (국립보건원 미생물부) ;
  • 이훈구 (국립보건원 미생물부) ;
  • 이연태 (단국대학교 이공대학 미생물학과) ;
  • 홍성노 (단국대학교 이공대학 미생물학과)
  • Published : 1984.12.31
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Abstract

One hundred and forty strains of Shigella cultures isolated from the twelve hygiene laboratories of cities and provincial level and general hospital laboratories in 1983, and were tested for their resistance to 13 antimicrobial drugs and their R-Plasmid transfer. One hundred and forty (100%) of isolates were susceptible to amikacin, gentamicin, tobramycin, a total of 94.3% of all shigella isolates were resistant to 1 or more of the 13 antimicrobial agents tested. The most commonly found resistance was to chloramphenicol (94%), followed by streptomycin (93%), tetracycline (92%), piperacillin (90%), ampicillin (83%), cefoperazone (42%), nalidixic acid (14%), cephalothin (17%), rifampicin (22%), and kanamycin (6%). Sixty percent of strains among 140 were resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, tetracycline at same time. The transfer of drug resistance by conjugation was tested and 94 strains (94.3%) which were resistant to one or more drugs were found to transfer their drug resistance to E. coli.

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