Genomic diversity among Vibrio cholerae O139 strains isolated in Bangladesh and India between 1992 and 1998

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 279-284

  Faruque, Shah M ^a   Saha, Manujendra N ^a   Asadulghani, ^a   Bag, Prasanta K ^b   Bhadra, Rupak K ^c   Bhattacharya, S K ^b   Sack, R Bradley ^d   Takeda, Yoshifumi ^e   Nair, G Balakrish ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; CTX genotype; Genetic diversity; Ribotype; Vibrio cholerae O139

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INDIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BANGLADESH; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0034653774     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00060-4     Document Type: Article

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