Genetic characteristics and changing antimicrobial resistance among Shigella spp. isolated from hospitalized diarrhoeal patients in Kolkata, India

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1460-1466

  Ghosh, Santanu ^a   Pazhani, G P ^a   Chowdhury, Goutam ^a   Guin, Sucharita ^a   Dutta, Sanjucta ^a   Rajendran, K ^a   Bhattacharya, M K ^a   Takeda, Y ^a   Niyogi, S K ^a   Balakrish Nair, G ^a   Ramamurthy, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FURAZOLIDONE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC TRAIT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INDIA; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEN GENE; SEROPREVALENCE; SEROTYPE; SET GENE; SHIGELLA BOYDII; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; SEROTYPING; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

EID: 80053148934     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.032920-0     Document Type: Article

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