Occurrence and antibiotic resistance of Vibrio parahaemolyticus from Shellfish in Selangor, Malaysia

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Letchumanan, Vengadesh ^a,b   Pusparajah, Priyia ^b   Tan, Loh Teng Hern ^b   Yin, Wai Fong ^a   Lee, Learn Han ^b   Chan, Kok Gan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; MAR index; Plasmid curing; Plasmid profile; Shellfish; Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; GENOMIC DNA; HEMOLYSIN; KANAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; INHIBITION ZONE; MALAYSIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHELLFISH; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS;

EID: 84954103718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01417     Document Type: Article

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