| prevalence and pattern of antimicrobial resistance of shigella species among patients with acute diarrhoea in karaj, tehran, iran. | the study was carried out to determine the prevalence and pattern of antimicrobial resistance of shigella species among patients with acute diarrhoea in karaj, tehran, iran. the study included all acute diarrhoea patients who visited the hospitals and treatment centres of karaj during november 2001-october 2002. of 734 stool samples collected from patients with acute diarrhoea and analyzed for shigella spp., 123 (16.8%) yielded shigella spp. (7.5% shigella flexneri, 5.2% s. sonnei, 2.6% s. dysen ... | 2003 | 13677436 |