Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhimurium, China

Abstract

We characterized 44 Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium isolates from Tongji Hospital outpatients in Wuhan, China, May 2002–October 2005. All 31 ciprofloxacin-resistant isolates were also resistant to >8 other antimicrobial drugs and carried >2 mutations in GyrA and 1 mutation in ParC. Class 1 integrons were identified in 37 isolates.

Keywords

• Salmonella Typhimurium
• outpatients
• ciprofloxacin
• resistance
• dispatch
• China