Vetsbd Livestock related only Bangla blog
With each issue of icddr,b’s Health Science Bulletin (HSB), updates of surveillance data described in earlier issues are provided. You may read that from here. These updated tables and figures represent the most recent observation period available at the time of publication. We hope these updates will be helpful to health professionals who are interested in current patterns of disease and drug resistance in Bangladesh.
Proportion of diarrhoeal pathogens susceptible to antimicrobial drugs:
December 2012-November 2013
| Antimicrobial agents |
Shigella N=58 |
V. cholerae O1 N=275 |
| Mecillinam | 83.0 | Not tested |
| Ampicillin | 58.5 | Not tested |
| TMP-SMX | 26.4 | 0.7 |
| Ciprofloxacin | 49.0 | 100.0 |
| Tetracycline | Not tested | 1.5 |
| Azithromycin | 83.0 | 100.0 |
| Ceftrioxone | 100.0 | Not tested |
