Increased Isolation and Characterization of Shigella sonnei Obtained from Hospitalized Children in Tehran, Iran

Shigella flexneri has been the most frequent cause of shigellosis in children in Iran. To evaluate the changes in frequency of serogroups, 302 Shigella species were isolated in 2003 from hospitalized children, aged less than 12 years, with acute diarrhoea in Tehran, Iran. The number of collected S....

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Published in:	Journal of health, population and nutrition Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 426 - 430
Main Authors:	Ranjbar, Reza, Dallal, Mohammad M. Soltan, Talebi, Malihe, Pourshafie, Mohammad R.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Bangladesh ICDDR,B: Centre for Health and Population Research 01-12-2008 BioMed Central Ltd BioMed Central International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
Subjects:	Antibiotic resistance Antibiotics Bacillary dysentery Causes of Child Children Children & youth Diarrhea Dosage and administration Drug resistance Drug resistance in microorganisms Drug Resistance, Bacterial Drug therapy Dysentery, Bacillary - epidemiology Dysentery, Bacillary - microbiology Electrophoresis, Agar Gel - methods Enzymes Health aspects Hospitalization Hospitalized Hospitals Humans Identification and classification Iran Iran - epidemiology Isolation Microbial Sensitivity Tests Microbiology Original Papers Plasmids Ribotyping Ribotyping - methods Shigella Shigella flexneri Shigella sonnei Shigella sonnei - isolation & purification Shigellosis Statistics Tehran Iran Teheran Iran
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