Sutapa Sinha
A comprehensive study was performed to examine incidence, species distribution, drugs sensitivity, virulence genes and molecular fingerprints of Aeromonas species isolated from patients with acute diarrhoea over a period of 2 years in Kolkata, India. Following the Aerokey II scheme, more than 95 % o...
Rupa Chakraborty, Sutapa Sinha, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Masahiro Asakura et al.
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Sutapa Sinha, Rupa Chakraborty, Keya De, Asis Khan et al.
Between December 1999 and December 2000, teams from the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Calcutta, India, examined eight outbreaks of cholera, which occurred in different parts of the country distant from each other. In two of these outbreaks each, only V. cholerae O1 biotype ElTo...
Sutapa Sinha, Suchismita Chattopadhyay, Sujit Bhattacharya, G. Balakrish Nair et al.
We examined 158 strains belonging to different Aeromonas species isolated from hospitalized acute diarrhoea cases for susceptibility to quinolones. Compared to other species, a high percentage of the A. caviae strains were resistant to ciprofloxacin and norfloxacin. Based on MIC values, 6 A. caviae ...
Simanti Datta, Asis Khan, Ranjan K. Nandy, Motiur Rehman et al.
We investigated the presence of cagA-like gene of Helicobacter pylori in environmental isolates of Aeromonas spp. from different water samples of Calcutta, India, by colony hybridization using a cagA-specific DNA probe and by PCR with cagA-specific primers. Nucleotide sequencing of five PCR products...