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

Abstract

Several parts of India, including Kolkata, witnessed a devastating epidemic of shigellosis with increased (35.6%) isolation of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 strains during 1984 ([10][1]). In the postepidemic period, shigellosis became endemic in Kolkata and S. flexneri (58%) was the most prevalent