Dissemination of a single Vibrio cholerae clone in cholera outbreaks during 2005 in Iran

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1615-1619

  Pourshafie, M R ^a   Bakhshi, B ^a   Ranjbar, R ^b   Sedaghat, M ^a   Sadeghifard, N ^c,d   Zaemi Yazdi, J ^c,e   Parzadeh, M ^a   Raesi, J ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^d ILAM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e Yazd Medical Sciences University   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FURAZOLIDONE; GENTAMICIN; POLYMYXIN B; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IRAN; NONHUMAN; PLATE COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RIBOTYPING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHOLERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; IRAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 37249086183     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47218-0     Document Type: Article

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