Article
Cholera in Vietnam: changes in genotypes and emergence of class I integrons containing aminoglycoside resistance gene cassettes in vibrio cholerae O1 strains isolated from 1979 to 1996.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Mar 1999
Dalsgaard A, Forslund A, Tam N V, Vinh D X, Cam P D
Abstract excerpt
The number of cholera cases and the mortality rates reported from different regions of Vietnam varied considerably in the period from 1979 to 1996, with between 2,500 and 6,000 cases reported annually from 1992 to 1995. Annual mortality rates ranged from 2.0 to 9.6% from 1979 to 1983 to less than 1.8% after 1983. Major cholera outbreaks were reported from the High Plateau region for the first time in 1994 and...
Topics
- Aminoglycosides
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Blotting, Southern
- Cholera
- Cholera Toxin
- DNA, Bacterial
- Disease Outbreaks
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Genotype
- Humans
- Incidence
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Plasmids