Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2007)

Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Neisseria meningitidis, Delhi, India

  • Smita Singhal,
  • Kedar P. Purnapatre,
  • Vandana Kalia,
  • Smita Dube,
  • Deepti Nair,
  • Monorama Deb,
  • Pushpa Aggarwal,
  • Sunil Gupta,
  • Dilip J. Upadhyay,
  • Awdhesh Kalia,
  • V. Samuel Raj

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1310.060820
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 10
pp. 1614 – 1616

Abstract

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Decreased susceptibility of Neisseria meningitidis isolates to ciprofloxacin emerged from an outbreak in Delhi, India. Results of antimicrobial susceptibility testing of the meningococcal isolates to ciprofloxacin and further sequencing of DNA gyrase A quinolone-resistance–determining region confirmed the emergence of ciprofloxacin resistance in the outbreak.

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