Figure 1.
Prevalence of Shigella spp. in Bangladesh from 2001 to 2011.
The distribution of each Shigella species is expressed in percentage and the total isolates of Shigella species are expressed in number.
Table 1.
Antibiotic resistance patterns of S. sonnei isolated in Bangladesh.
Figure 2.
Agarose gel electrophoresis of plasmid DNA showing representative patterns of S. sonnei.
Lane: A, E. coli PDK-9, Lanes: B-M, Representative S. sonnei strains, Lane: N, E. coli V-517, Lane: O, E. coli R-1 and Sa. CHR-indicates the banding position of the chromosome.
Phylogenetic dendrogram showing the genetic distances among S. sonnei using XbaI macrorestriction analysis.
Table 2.
Correlation among Biotype, Pulsotypes, Integron Type and Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of S. sonnei.