TY - JOUR AU - Butt, Tariq AU - Ahmad, Rifat Nadeem AU - Mahmood, Abid AU - Zaidi, Sabeen T1 - Ciprofloxacin Treatment Failure in Typhoid Fever Case, Pakistan T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2003 VL - 9 IS - 12 SP - 1621 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report a case of ciprofloxacin treatment failure in a typhoid fever patient at a tertiary care hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. This case shows not only the emergence of fluoroquinolone resistance in typhoid salmonellae but also the inadequacy of the current laboratory guidelines for detection of this resistance. KW - Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi KW - fluoroquinolone KW - treatment failure KW - Pakistan DO - 10.3201/eid0912.030230 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/12/03-0230_article ER - End of Reference