Epidemiology and evolution of genotype and antimicrobial resistance of an imported Shigella sonnei clone circulating in central Taiwan

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 469-475

  Wei, Hsiao Lun ^a   Wang, You Wen ^a   Li, Chun Chin ^a   Tung, Sheng Kai ^a   Chiou, Chien Shun ^a,b  

^a CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Epidemiology; Evolution; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Shigella sonnei

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHIGELLOSIS; TAIWAN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SHIGELLA SONNEI; TAIWAN;

EID: 34547561250     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.03.006     Document Type: Article

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