Epidemiological characterization of resistance and PCR typing of Shigella flexneri and Shigella sonnei strains isolated from bacillary dysentery cases in Southeast Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 249-258

  Penatti, M P A ^a   Hollanda, L M ^a   Nakazato, G ^a   Campos, T A ^a   Lancellotti, M ^a   Angellini, M ^a   Brocchi, M ^a   Rocha, M M M ^b   Dias da Silveira, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Double repetitive element polymerase chain reaction; Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus polymerase chain reaction; Repetitive extragenic palindromic polymerase chain reaction; Shigella flexneri; Shigella sonnei

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFALOTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GENOMIC DNA; PALINDROMIC DNA; PLASMID DNA; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFAZOTRIM; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHIGELLOSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

EID: 33846964217     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2007000200012     Document Type: Article

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