Article
Phenotypic and genotypic traits and epidemiological implication of Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139 strains in India during 2003.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jun 2007
Chatterjee Souvik, Ghosh Kausik, Raychoudhuri Amit, Pan Arpita, Bhattacharya Mihir Kumar, Mukhopadhyay Asish Kumar, Ramamurthy T, Bhattacharya Sujit Kumar, Nandy Ranjan Kumar
Abstract excerpt
During 2003, Vibrio cholerae O1 Ogawa was the predominant serotype among diarrhoeal patients admitted to different hospitals in India. With the exception of 3 strains from Kolkata, none of 172 strains examined exhibited resistance to tetracycline, but 45.7 % showed reduced susceptibility to ciprofloxacin. Extensive molecular characterization using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis, ribotyping and PFGE...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Cholera
- Ciprofloxacin
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA Fingerprinting
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Viral
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genotype
- Humans