Molecular characteristics and susceptibility to antibiotics of serogroup ANeisseria meningitidis strains isolated in Senegal in 1999

Authors
Sow, AI Caugant, DA Cisse, MF Hoiby, EA Samb, A
Citation
Ai. Sow et al., Molecular characteristics and susceptibility to antibiotics of serogroup ANeisseria meningitidis strains isolated in Senegal in 1999, SC J IN DIS, 32(2), 2000, pp. 185-187
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Immunolgy & Infectious Disease",Immunology
Journal title
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
ISSN journal
00365548 → ACNP
Volume
32
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
185 - 187
Database
ISI
SICI code
0036-5548(2000)32:2<185:MCASTA>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
A total of 22 strains of Neisseria meningitidis isolated from cerebrospinal fluid samples of patients in Dakar, Senegal, in the course of an epidemic of meningococcal meningitis in 1999 were studied. All the strains were sero group A, serotype 21 :P1.9 and belonged to clonal subgroup III-1, The strai ns were resistant to sulphonamide, but were susceptible to ampicillin, ceft riaxon and chloramphenicol, which are used in the treatment of cerebrospina l meningitis in Senegal.