[Development of antibiotic resistance of type 1 Shigella dysenteriae strains (Shiga bacillus) isolated in Tananarive on the East coast of Madagascar].

From November 1988 to March 1989, 804 Malagasy children stools were studied and 37 Shigella strains isolated. 5 Shigella dysenteriae type 1 from Malagasy East coast (Mananjary), presented a multiply resistance to ampicillin, carbenicillin, streptomycin, chloramphenicol, tetracycline, sulphonamides and trimethoprim. This last resistance has recently appeared in this area.