Open AccessPotential for In Vivo Acquisition of R Plasmids by One Strain of Vibrio cholerae Biotype El Tor
Author(s) -
Ronald B. Davey,
J Pittard
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.07
H-Index - 259
eISSN - 1070-6283
pISSN - 0066-4804
DOI - 10.1128/aac.8.2.111
Subject(s) - tetracycline , vibrio cholerae , microbiology and biotechnology , el tor , escherichia coli , cholera , biology , strain (injury) , plasmid , outbreak , feces , vibrionaceae , enterobacteriaceae , virology , antibiotics , bacteria , genetics , dna , anatomy , gene
The feces of five patients admitted to a hospital during an outbreak of cholera in Melbourne, Australia, in November 1972, were examined for the presence of tetracycline-resistant coliforms and tetracycline-resistant strains ofVibrio cholerae . Despite the abundance of tetracycline-resistant coliforms able to transfer this resistance to other strains ofEscherichia coli , no tetracycline-resistant strains ofV. cholerae were detected. In vitro transfer experiments using theV. cholerae strain responsible for the outbreak as recipient revealed that it was a particularly poor host for most R plasmids.