Characterization of an SXT variant Vibrio cholerae O1 Ogawa isolated from a patient in Trivandrum, India

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 303, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-136

  Kumar, Praveen ^a   Wilson, Peter A ^a   Bhai, Ramani ^b   Thomas, Sabu ^a  

^a RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

AttP; Conjugation; Multidrug resistance; SXT; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIOPHAGE RECEPTOR; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) A; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) B; FURAZOLIDONE; GENTAMICIN; INT PROTEIN; INTEGRASE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; POLYMYXIN B; PROTEIN PARC; PROTEIN PARE; RIFAMPICIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INDIA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1 OGAWA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATTACHMENT SITES, MICROBIOLOGICAL; CHOLERA; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 75149113203     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01868.x     Document Type: Article

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