Plasmid-encoded multidrug resistance of Salmonella typhi and some enteric bacteria in and around Kolkata, India: A preliminary study

Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Mandal, Shyamapada ^a   Mandal, Manisha Deb ^a   Pal, Nishith Kumar ^a  

^a CALCUTTA SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (India)

Author keywords

Conjugative R plasmid; Multidrug resistance; Salmonella typhi

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PLASMID DNA; TETRACYCLINE;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VITRO STUDY; INDIA; INTESTINE FLORA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEUS VULGARIS; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 14644432514     PISSN: 09725997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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