Enterotoxigenicity screening of viable environmental Vibrio cholerae strains from rainwater pools in a university campus in Chennai, South India

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 325-328

  Rajkumar, Samuel ^a   Joseph Ratnam, Vivian P ^a   Narmada, N ^a   Arakawa, Eiji ^b   Sundararaj, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cholera; enterotoxin; Vibrio; Vibrio cholerae

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFALEXIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ENTEROTOXIN; GENTAMICIN; NORFLOXACIN; RAIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; INDIA; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; CHOLERA; CHOLERA TOXIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RABBITS; RAIN; SEASONS; SEROTYPING; UNIVERSITIES; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 79954495487     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2010.548079     Document Type: Article

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