Mechanism of drug resistance in a clinical isolate of Vibrio fluvialis: involvement of multiple plasmids and integrons

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 220-225

  Rajpara, Neha ^a   Patel, Arati ^a   Tiwari, Neha ^a   Bahuguna, Jyotsana ^a   Antony, Anita ^a   Choudhury, Ipsita ^a   Ghosh, Anuradha ^b   Jain, Rakesh ^b   Ghosh, Amit ^a   Bhardwaj, Ashima Kushwaha ^a  

^a Koba Institutional Area   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Integron; Mobile genetic elements; Multidrug resistance; Plasmid; Vibrio cholerae; Vibrio fluvialis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAFURAZOLE; SULFAMETHIZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRAIT; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRON; MOLECULAR SIZE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO FLUVIALIS;

ANTIMALARIALS; CHOLERA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRIMETHOPRIM; VIBRIO;

EID: 67650762796     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2009.03.020     Document Type: Article

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