Antibiotic resistance conferred by a class I integron and SXT constin in Vibrio cholerae O1 strains isolated in Laos

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2364-2369

  Iwanaga, Masaaki ^a   Toma, Claudia ^a   Miyazato, Tomoko ^a   Insisiengmay, Sithat ^c   Nakasone, Noboru ^a   Ehara, Masahiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Ministry of Health   (Laos)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE;

AADA1 GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOR GENE; GENE CASSETTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOMIC ISLAND; INTEGRON; LAOS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAB GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SULII GENE; SXT CONSTIN; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; INTEGRONS; LAOS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

EID: 3042536353     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.7.2364-2369.2004     Document Type: Article

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