Vibrio cholerae O1 from Accra, Ghana carrying a class 2 integron and the SXT element

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 929-933

  Opintan, Japheth A ^a   Newman, Mercy J ^a   Nsiah Poodoh, Owusu Agyemang ^a   Okeke, Iruka N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b HAVERFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Antimicrobial resistance; Cholera; Trimethoprim resistance

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EPIDEMIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CASSETTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GHANA; HUMAN; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URBAN AREA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLERA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

EID: 54549083459     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn334     Document Type: Article

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