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Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2009, p. 2696-2699, Vol. 53, No. 6
0066-4804/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.01297-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

High Rate of Reduced Susceptibility to Ciprofloxacin and Ceftriaxone among Nontyphoid Salmonella Clinical Isolates in Asia{triangledown}

Hao-Yuan Lee,1,2,{dagger} Lin-Hui Su,1,2,{dagger} Ming-Han Tsai,1,2 Shin-Woo Kim,3 Hyun-Ha Chang,3 Sook-In Jung,4 Kyung-Hwa Park,4 Jennifer Perera,5 Celia Carlos,6 Ban Hock Tan,7 Gamini Kumarasinghe,7 Thomas So,8 Anan Chongthaleong,9 Po-Ren Hsueh,10 Jien-Wei Liu,11 Jae-Hoon Song,12* and Cheng-Hsun Chiu1,2*

Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan,1 Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan,2 Kyungpook National University Hospital, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea,3 Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea,4 University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka,5 Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, Manila, Philippines,6 Singapore General Hospital, National University of Singapore, Singapore,7 Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong,8 Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand,9 Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan,10 Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan,11 Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea,12

Received 27 September 2008/ Returned for modification 2 January 2009/ Accepted 21 March 2009

This multinational study from Asia revealed that reduced susceptibility to ciprofloxacin (MIC, 0.125 to 1 µg/ml) in nontyphoid Salmonella isolates was common in Taiwan (48.1%) and Thailand (46.2%) and in S. enterica serotype Choleraesuis (68.8%) and S. Virchow (75.0%) from all countries. Reduced susceptibility to ceftriaxone (MIC, 2 to 8 µg/ml) remained uncommon in Asia, except in Taiwan (38.0%) or in S. Typhimurium (25.0%) from all countries.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address for Cheng-Hsun Chiu: Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 5 Fu-Hsin Street, Kweishan, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan. Phone: 886 3 3281200, ext. 8896. Fax: 886 3 3288957. E-mail: chchiu{at}adm.cgmh.org.tw. Mailing address for Jae-Hoon Song: Division of Infectious Diseases, Samsung Medical Center, 50 IL-won dong Kangnam-ku, Seoul, 135-710 Korea. Phone: 82-2-34100322. Fax: 82-2-34100041. E-mail: jhsong{at}smc.samsung.co.kr

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 30 March 2009.

{dagger} Hao-Yuan Lee and Lin-Hui Su contributed equally to this work.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, June 2009, p. 2696-2699, Vol. 53, No. 6
0066-4804/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AAC.01297-08
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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