Newly Emerged Multiple-Antibiotic-Resistant Shigella dysenteriae Type 1 Strains in and around Kolkata, India, Are Clonal [1]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5833-5834

  Dutta, Shanta ^a   Ghosh, Ayantika ^a   Ghosh, Kaushik ^a   Dutta, Dharitri ^a   Bhattacharya, Sujit K ^a   Nair, G Balakrish ^b   Yoshida, Shin Ichi ^c  

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

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; INDIA; LETTER; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSERTION SEQUENCES; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE;

EID: 0346218262     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.12.5833-5834.2003     Document Type: Letter

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