Reemergence of epidemic Vibrio cholerae O139, Bangladesh

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1116-1122

  Faruque, Shah M ^a   Chowdhury, Nityananda ^a   Kamruzzaman, M ^a   Ahmad, Q Shafi ^a   Faruque, A S G ^a   Salam, M Abdus ^a   Ramamurthy, T ^b   Nair, G Balakrish ^a   Weintraub, Andrej ^c   Sack, David A ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

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

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BANGLADESH; CHOLERA; CTX CALC PROPHAGE; CTX ET PROPHAGE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PROPHAGE; RIBOTYPING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROTYPE; VIBRIO CHOLERA O139; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0042316884     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0909.020443     Document Type: Article

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