Characterization of Shigella sonnei in Malaysia, an increasingly prevalent etiologic agent of local shigellosis cases

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Koh, Xiu P ^a   Chiou, Chien S ^b   Ajam, Noni ^a   Watanabe, Haruo ^c   Ahmad, Norazah ^d   Thong, Kwai L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Biotype; Diversity; MLVA; PFGE; Resistotype; Shigella sonnei

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; KANAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALAYSIA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHIGELLOSIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PREVALENCE; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

EID: 84861162165     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-122     Document Type: Article

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