Ciprofloxacin Treatment Failure in Typhoid Fever Case, Pakistan

Butt, Tariq; Ahmad, Rifat Nadeem; Mahmood, Abid; Zaidi, Sabeen

doi:10.3201/eid0912.030230

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Ciprofloxacin Treatment Failure in Typhoid Fever Case, Pakistan

Published Date:

Dec 2003

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http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0912.030230 New Site Icon

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Emerg Infect Dis. 9(12):1621-1622.

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English

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Emerg Infect Dis

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Butt, Tariq ; Ahmad, Rifat Nadeem ; Mahmood, Abid ; Zaidi, Sabeen ;

Description:

We report a case of ciprofloxacin treatment failure in a typhoid fever patient at a tertiary care hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. This case shows not only the emergence of fluoroquinolone resistance in typhoid salmonellae but also the inadequacy of the current laboratory guidelines for detection of this resistance.

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