Vibrio vulnificus as a health hazard for shrimp consumers

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 263-266

  Do Nascimento, Susy Margella Melo ^a   Vieira, Regine Helena Silva Dos Fernandes ^a,d   Theophilo, Grace Nazareth Diogo ^b   Rodrigues, Dália Dos Prazeres ^b   Vieira, Gustavo Hitzschky Fernandes ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL VALE DO ACARAÚ   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial susceptibility tests; Marine bacterium; Shrimp; Vibrio vulnificus

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NITROFURANTOIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; GASTROENTERITIS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; SEPTICEMIA; SHRIMP; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0035168555     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0036-46652001000500005     Document Type: Article

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