Variation in Salmonella enterica serovar typhi IncHI1 plasmids during the global spread of resistant typhoid fever

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 716-727

  Phan, Minh Duy ^a   Kidgell, Claire ^b   Nair, Satheesh ^a   Holt, Kathryn E ^a   Turner, Arthur K ^a   Hinds, Jason ^c   Butcher, Philip ^c   Cooke, Fiona J ^a   Thomson, Nicholas R ^a   Titball, Richard ^d,g   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^e   Hasan, Rumina ^e   Dougan, Gordon ^a   Wain, John ^a,f  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTEGRASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; DNA TRANSPOSITION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PLASMID INCHI1; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPE; TYPHOID FEVER;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TYPHOID FEVER; VIETNAM;

EID: 59749094707     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00645-08     Document Type: Article

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