The transfer of antibiotic resistance by R plasmids in Shigellae

Bremner, D.A.

New Zealand Medical Journal 88(615): 9-10

1978


ISSN/ISBN: 0028-8446
PMID: 370696
Document Number: 136396
Forty-five strains of Shigella species isolated at Auckland Hospital from 1972--1974 were investigated for antibiotic resistance. Forty-two strains were resistant to one or more antibiotics and 11 strains transferred antibiotic resistance by conjugation to E. coli.

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