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ArticleEpidemiology and infection2006

The emerging strains of Shigella dysenteriae type 2 in Bangladesh are clonal.

K A Talukder, B K Khajanchi, M A Islam, D K Dutta, Z Islam, S I Khan, G B Nair, D A Sack

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Article in Epidemiology and infection, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

K A TalukderICDDR, B: Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh. kaisar@icddrb.org
B K Khajanchi
M A Islam
D K Dutta
Z Islam
S I Khan
G B Nair
D A Sack
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research · BDUniversity of Dhaka · BD

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A total of 113 strains of Shigella dysenteriae type 2 isolated from patients attending the Dhaka diarrhoea treatment centre of ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research during the period 1999-2004 were studied. Serotype of the isolates was confirmed using commercially available antisera. Except for arabinose fermentation, all the strains had similar biochemical reactions. More than 60% of the strains were sensitive to commonly used antibiotics; only 6% (n=7) of the strains were resistant to nalidixic acid, and none of the strains were resistant to mecillinam and ciprofloxacin. All strains were invasive as demonstrated by the presence of a 140 MDa plasmid, ial, sen and ipaH genes, Congo Red absorption ability and by the Sereny test performed on representative strains. Plasmid patterns were heterogeneous but more than 50% of strains were confined to a single pattern. All strains possessed a 1.6 MDa plasmid and 87% of the strains contained a 4 MDa plasmid. Middle-range plasmids (90 MDa to 30 MDa) present in 36% of the strains were not associated with antibiotic resistance. All the strains were clustered within a single type with four subtypes by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis while ribotyping patterns of all the strains were identical.

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BangladeshDNA, BacterialDrug Resistance, BacterialDysentery, BacillaryElectrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-FieldGenes, BacterialGenotypeHumansPhenotypePlasmidsRibotypingShigella flexneriDNA, Bacterial

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PMID16684401
PMCPMC2870502
OpenAlexW2108346199

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