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The emergence of azithromycin-resistant Salmonella Typhi in Nepal
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Background Typhoid fever remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in Asia and Africa. The emergence of azithromycin resistance in South Asia is concerning, as azithromycin is one of the last effective oral drugs for treating typhoid. Objectives To describe the molecular mechanism and phylogenetics of azithromycin-resistant (AzithR) Salmonella Typhi isolates from Patan Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal. Methods Whole-genome sequences of three AzithR S. Typhi isolates (MIC >256 mg/L) ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- JAC-Antimicrobial Resistanceop Journal website
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 4
- Article number:
- dlaa109
- Publication date:
- 2020-12-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-11-10
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- EISSN:
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2632-1823
- Pmid:
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34223059
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1185370
- Local pid:
- pubs:1185370
- Deposit date:
- 2021-07-15
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- Duy et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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