Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strains isolated before 1992 from Varanasi, India are multiple drug resistant, contain intSXT, dfr18 and aadA5 genes

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 866-873

  Mohapatra, Harapriya ^a   Mohapatra, Saswat S ^a   Mantri, Chinmay K ^a   Colwell, Rita R ^b   Singh, Durg V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONIST; FURAZOLIDONE; INTEGRASE; STREPTOMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INDIA; INTEGRON; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONISTS; FURAZOLIDONE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTEGRASES; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; STREPTOMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE NON-O1; VIBRIO INFECTIONS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 40949086836     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01502.x     Document Type: Article

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