SEROTYPE DISTRIBUTION AND ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY OF SHIGELLAE ISOLATED FROM DIARRHEAL PATIENTS IN YANGON, MYANMAR

In Myanmar there is a changing pattern in the prevalence of Shigella s trains with an increasing antimicrobial resistance, and, thus the sero type prevalence and antibiotic sensitivity pattern of Shigellae were s tudied in 1993. Dysenteric stool samples were collected from the labor atory of Infectious Diseases Hospital, Yangon during January-June 1993 . The Shigella isolates were identified by the standard bacteriologic procedures, Four hundred and sixty stool samples containing blood and mucous were collected in this study, and Shigella spp, were isolated f rom the 108 (23.5%) samples. The increasing antimicrobial resistance o f shigellosis from 1980 to 1993 in this community was also discussed.