Class 1 integron-borne, multiple-antibiotic resistance encoded by a 150-kilobase conjugative plasmid in epidemic Vibrio cholerae O1 strains isolated in Guinea-Bissau

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 3774-3779

  Dalsgaard, A ^a   Forslund, A ^a   Petersen, A ^a   Brown, D J ^a   Dias, F ^a   Monteiro, S ^a   Molbak, K ^a   Aaby, P ^a   Rodrigues, A ^a   Sandstrom, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2,4 DIAMINO 6,7 DIISOPROPYLPTERIDINE; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FURAZOLIDONE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHOLERA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENE CASSETTE; GENOTYPE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMAN; INTEGRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

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

EID: 0033770745     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.10.3774-3779.2000     Document Type: Article

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