Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2016)

ESBL-Producing and Macrolide-Resistant Shigella sonnei Infections among Men Who Have Sex with Men, England, 2015

  • Piers Mook,
  • Jacquelyn McCormick,
  • Manpreet Bains,
  • Lauren A. Cowley,
  • Marie A. Chattaway,
  • Claire Jenkins,
  • Amy Mikhail,
  • Gwenda Hughes,
  • Richard Elson,
  • Martin Day,
  • Rohini Manuel,
  • Jayshree Dave,
  • Nigel Field,
  • Gauri Godbole,
  • Timothy J. Dallman,
  • Paul Crook

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2211.160653
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 11
pp. 1948 – 1952

Abstract

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In England in 2015, Shigella sonnei isolates from men who have sex with men produced extended-spectrum β-lactamases and exhibited macrolide resistance. Whole-genome sequencing showed a close relationship among the isolates, which harbored a plasmid that was previously identified in a shigellosis outbreak among this population but has acquired a mobile element.

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