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JAPANESE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 66, Issue 6, Pages 534-536Publisher
NATL INST INFECTIOUS DISEASES
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.66.534
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- Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan [H22-Shinkou-Ippan-010, H23-Shinkou-Wakate-022]
- Honjo International Scholarship Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23790489] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The antibiotic susceptibilities of 36 isolates of Japanese Francisella tularensis, an etiological agent of the zoonotic disease tularemia, were analyzed using the E test. All the isolates were susceptible to ciprofloxacin, doxycycline, erythromycin, and gentamicin but resistant to benzylpenicillin and cephalothin. The susceptibility to seven other beta-lactams (aztreonam, cefotaxime, cefoxitin, ceftriaxone, cefuroxime, imipenem, and meropenem) varied among the isolates. These findings suggest that the guidelines for the antibiotic treatment of tularemia issued by the World Health Organization are appropriate for Japanese tularemia patients.
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