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Tetracycline resistance in Staphylococcus intermedius
Author(s) -
Schwarz S.,
Wang Z.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
letters in applied microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.698
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1472-765X
pISSN - 0266-8254
DOI - 10.1111/j.1472-765x.1993.tb00378.x
Subject(s) - tetracycline , staphylococcus intermedius , minocycline , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , staphylococcus , gene , staphylococcus aureus , streptococcus intermedius , genetics , antibiotics , bacteria , streptococcus
Staphylococcus intermedius cultures commonly exhibited combined resistance to tetracycline and to minocycline. The respective tetracycline resistance genes could not be demonstrated to be plasmidborne as known from other staphylococcal species. They were found to be located in the chromosomal DNA. Southern blot hybridization with specific gene probes identified the tetracycline resistance genes of Staph. intermedius to belong to the class M of bacterial tet genes .