Cholera in Vietnam: Changes in genotypes and emergence of class I integrons containing aminoglycoside resistance gene cassettes in Vibrio cholerae O1 strains isolated from 1979 to 1996

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 734-741

  Dalsgaard, A ^a   Forslund, A ^a   Tam, N V ^b   Vinh, D X ^c   Cam, P D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Viet Nam)

^c Department of Microbiology   (Viet Nam)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHOLERA; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIET NAM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FORMICIDAE; NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0033029787     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.3.734-741.1999     Document Type: Article

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