Newly Emerged Multiple-Antibiotic-Resistant Shigella dysenteriae Type 1 Strains in and around Kolkata, India, Are Clonal

  1. Kaushik Ghosh
  1. Division of Microbiology
  1. Sujit K. Bhattacharya
  1. Clinical Medicine
    National Institute of Cholera  and Enteric Diseases
    Kolkata, India
  1. G. Balakrish Nair
  1. International Centre for Diarrheal  Disease Research Bangladesh
    Dhaka, Bangladesh
  1. Shin-ichi Yoshida
  1. Division of Bacteriology
    Faculty of Medical Sciences
    Kyushu University
    Fukuoka, Japan
  1. FIG. 1.

    PFGE patterns of S. dysenteriae type 1 strains isolated from Kolkata after digesting genomic DNA with the XbaI restriction endonuclease enzyme. Lanes M, 48.5-kb concatemers of bacteriophage λ DNA (Bio-Rad, Hercules, Calif.) used as molecular size standards; lane 1, outbreak strain (X1 pulsotype); lanes 2 to 4, 6 to 8, and 10 to 12, strains from hospitalized cases (X1 pulsotype); lane 5, hospital strain (X11 subtype); lane 9, hospital strain (X12 subtype); lane 13, smearing of DNA.

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