Hybrid El Tor Vibrio cholerae O1, Kuwait

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1879-1880

  Joshi, Rajinder M ^a   Albert, M John ^b  

^a YIACO Medical Co   (Kuwait)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMPICILLIN; ANTISERUM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BILE SALT; CITRIC ACID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CTXA PROTEIN; CTXB PROTEIN; DOXYCYCLINE; HEMOLYSIN; INFUSION FLUID; NUCLEOTIDE; POLYMYXIN B; SUCROSE; TCP PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; THIOSULFATE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; AMPLICON; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTYPE; CASE REPORT; CHOLERA; DEHYDRATION; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; DISK DIFFUSION; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYBRID; INDIA; INFORMATION CENTER; INTRAVENOUS ADMINISTRATION; KUWAIT; LETTER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROPHAGE; REHYDRATION; SCREENING; SEROTYPE; TRAVEL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VOMITING;

ADULT; CHOLERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INDIA; KUWAIT; MALE; PHILIPPINES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

EID: 70350460201     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1511.090357     Document Type: Letter

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