Characterization of a Nosocomially Significant, Multiple Drug-Resistant Strain ofSerratia marcescens
作者:
Walter H. Traub,
Ingrid Kleber,
Alfred Pühler,
Hans-Joachim Burkardt,
期刊:
Chemotherapy
(Karger Available online 1976)
卷期:
Volume 22,
issue 5
页码: 297-312
ISSN:0009-3157
年代: 1976
DOI:10.1159/000221937
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Amikacin susceptibility;Multiple drug resistance;Nosocomial significance;R(resistance)-plasmids;R-plasmid DNA;Serratia marcescens
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
A multiple drug-resistant strain of Serratia marcescens (bacteriocin type 18) was isolated from three clinical patients. The isolates were found to carry a conjugally nontransferable, nonmobilizeable resistance plasmid (R-plasmid) with resistance-(r-)determinants against ten antimicrobial drugs: ampicillin, carbenicillin, chloramphenicol, gentamicin, kanamycin, neomycin, streptomycin, tobramycin, triple sulfonamides, cotrimoxazole, and – possibly – nalidixic acid, as determined with exposure to ‘curing’agents (ethidium bromide, acridine orange, and sodium dodecyl sulfate) and by the high rate of spontaneous loss of r-determinants. Dye-buoyant density centrifugation allowed recovery of R-plasmid DNA that measured roughly 24 μm in contour length; after ‘curing’ with concomitant loss of 9 r-determinants, the contour length of the R-plasmid DNA of one isolate (No. SE 154) had decreased to roughly 15 μm, and none was detected in the sole variant of the isolate that spontaneously had lost 11 r
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