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. 1975 Aug;8(2):111-6.
doi: 10.1128/AAC.8.2.111.

Potential for in vivo acquisition of R plasmids by one strain of Vibrio cholerae biotype El tor

R B Davey, J Pittard

Potential for in vivo acquisition of R plasmids by one strain of Vibrio cholerae biotype El tor

R B Davey et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1975 Aug.

Abstract

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 of Vibrio cholerae. Despite the abundance of tetracycline-resistant coliforms able to transfer this resistance to other strains of Escherichia coli, no tetracycline-resistant strains of V. cholerae were detected. In vitro transfer experiments using the V. cholerae strain responsible for the outbreak as recipient revealed that it was a particularly poor host for most R plasmids.

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