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This study is the first, to our knowledge, to identify an atypical sul3<\/jats:italic>-associated class 1 integron carrying the estX-psp-aadA2-cmlA-aadA1-qacH<\/jats:italic> cassette array in Shigella<\/jats:italic>. Class 2 integrons carrying the dfr1<\/jats:italic>-sat2<\/jats:italic>-aadA1<\/jats:italic> cassette array were predominant in outbreak isolates (90\u200a%) but were not present in sporadic isolates. Other antimicrobial resistance genes not associated with integrons were found to encode resistance to ampicillin (bla<\/jats:italic>\n TEM<\/jats:sub>), chloramphenicol (cat1<\/jats:italic>), sulfonamide (sul2<\/jats:italic>) and tetracycline (tetA<\/jats:italic> and tetB<\/jats:italic>). The most common plasmid size was 130\u2005kb (observed in 43 and 97\u200a% of 1998 outbreak and sporadic isolates, respectively). 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