Vibrio cholerae O1 outbreak isolates in Mozambique and South Africa in 1998 are multiple-drug resistant, contain the SXT element and the aadA2 gene located on class 1 integrons

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 827-838

  Dalsgaard, A ^a   Forslund, A ^a   Sandvang, D ^a   Arntzen, L ^b   Keddy, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN 2'' NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; GENTAMICIN 2''-NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CHOLERA; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOZAMBIQUE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSPOSON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANTIBIOTICS; CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOZAMBIQUE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; SOUTH AFRICA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0035654074     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/48.6.827     Document Type: Article

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