Accession Number:
ADB026357
Title:
Infectious Multiple Drug Resistance in the Enterobacteriaceae
Descriptive Note:
Aunual rept. Jun 1976-May 1977
Corporate Author:
WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE DEPT OF MICROBIOLOGY
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Report Date:
1977-09-01
Pagination or Media Count:
26.0
Abstract:
Tobrymycin-resistant burn wound isolates from five different bacterial genera contained a common 68 x 10 to the 6th power dalton R plasmid that could be transmitted by conjugation to Escherichia coli K-12. It was possible by a variety of newly developed methods to detect, characterize and show molecular identity of this R plasmid in clinical isolates from patients. This study illustrates the usefulness of simple screening methods for studying the molecular epidemiology of R plasmids in the hospital setting or during an epidemic.
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Subject Categories:
- Microbiology