Molecular tracking of the lineage of strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor associated with a cholera outbreak in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 604-611

  Roy, Subarna ^a   Dutta, Basabjit ^b   Ghosh, Asit Ranjan ^a   Sugunan, A P ^a   Nandy, Ranjan Kumar ^b   Bhattacharya, Sujit Kumar ^b   Sehgal, Subhash C ^a  

^a ICMR Regional Medical Research Centre   (India)

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

Author keywords

Cholera; Clonal spread; Epidemic; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NITROFURANTOIN; NORFLOXACIN; POLYMYXIN B; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

CHOLERA; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CHOLERA; DIARRHEA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RIBOTYPING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIRULENCE;

ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 20444384769     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2005.01423.x     Document Type: Article

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