SAT1 and shigellosis: Shigellosis surveys in Iran conducted from 2008 to 2012 have repeatedly shown that this characteristic Asian pulsotype is prevalent and endemic, and that these strains also possess a similar class 2 integron (dfrA1, sat1), but exhibit variability in their ciprofloxacin susceptibility phenotype (Tajbakhsh et al., 2012; Eftekhari et al., 2013; Alizadeh-Hesar et al., 2015).