Microbiologic and biochemical tests confirmed the presence of an extended spectrum beta-lactamase displaying an apparent isoelectric point value of 8.2.
Shigellosis is an important public health problem, especially in developing countries.
Antibiotic treatment of bacterial dysentery, aimed at resolving diarrhea or reducing its duration, is especially indicated whenever malnutrition is involved. When epidemiologic data indicate a rise in resistance, fluoroquinolones may be used in adults and oral third-generation cephalosporins in children. During the hospital stay, she received gentamicin for 1 week, but no bacterial enteropathogen was isolated. In this region, Shigella spp. S. sonnei was isolated on eosin-methylene blue agar plates.