Class 2 integrons in Vibrio cholerae

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 643-644

  Ahmed, Ashraf M ^a,b   Kawaguchi, Fumio ^a   Shimamoto, Tadashi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TANTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BANGLADESH; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; INDIA; INTEGRON; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE NON-O1; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O139;

EID: 33646248628     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46378-0     Document Type: Letter

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