• The Journal of the Korean Society for Microbiology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.9-12
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• 1975

The authors identified 717 Salmonella cultures among 1504 suspectable cultures collected from all over the country in 1974. According to the results obtained from the physical and biochemical tests, and the antigenic formula analysis, seven cultures of S. paratyphi A, one culture of S. paratyphi B, Six cultures of S. typhimurium, one culture of S. thompson, four cultures of S. enteritidis and six hundred and ninty eight cultures of S. typhi were confirmed. The results of antibiotics-sensitivity test on Salmonella cultures revealed that chloramphenicol, gentamycin and ampicilin were considered to be the drugs of choice according to the results from the In Vitro test performed.

• The Journal of the Korean Society for Microbiology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.7-11
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• 1974

The authors identified fifty-eight Shigella cultures among 1644 cultures and specimens of enteric pathogens collected from all over the country in 1973. Fifty-one out of fifty-eight cultures belonged to Shigella flexneri and the rest to Shigella sonnei. None of cultures belonging to either subgroup A or C was detected in 1973. Of fifty-one cultures of Shigella flexneri twenty-six cultures were $B_{2a}$, which were isolated in Seoul area and Kwangwon-Do. The rest were $B_{3a}$ which were isolated in Jeonla-bug-Do and Kangwon-Do. It would not be possible to understand that there might not have been the cases or carriers of Shigella in the areas where the organisms were not isolated in 1973 and that there might not have been any other serotypes existing in the country, although there was a quite disparity found in the distribution between different areas and in the detection of the serotypes as shown in Table 1. Concerning the biochemical properties there were only two cultures showing positive arginine decarboxylase test among $B_{2a}$, and there were three cultures of trehalose negative cultures, one of rhamnose positive culture and one of glycerol positive culture observed, which were considered to be unusual. All the Shigella cultures were sensitive to nitrofurantoin, cephalosporin and ampicillin, and resistant to colistin, bacitracin and neomycin. Majority of them showed sensitive results to gentamycin, and the majority of Shigella $B_{3a}$ appeared to be sensitive to chloramphenicol, tetracycline, oxytetracycline and doxycycline, but the majority of $B_{2a}$ and Shigella sonnei were observed resistant to those antibiotics by means of the In-Vitro tests.