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The Journal of Medical Microbiology, Vol 14, Issue 4 371-380, Copyright © 1981 by Society for General Microbiology

JOURNAL ARTICLE

An R plasmid of broad host-range, coding for resistance to nine antimicrobial agents endemic in Gram-negative nosocomial isolates

S. Tantulavanich, V. M. Olexy, T. R. Prasad, T. J. Bird, C. Talanda-Fath, H. G. Grieble and S. K. Farrand

Of 3952 clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae, 246 exhibited resistance to at least carbenicillin, gentamicin and tobramycin. All these isolates, representing eight genera, were resistant to at least nine antimicrobial agents in common, including the three key antibiotics and streptomycin, kanamycin, sisomycin, ampicillin, cephalothin and sulphonamide. The strains could be subdivided into seven groups depending upon additional resistance traits and some were resistant to as many as 15 antibiotics. When mated with a standard strain of Escherichia coli, 85% of 123 randomly selected donors transferred resistance to at least the nine core antibiotics. Some donors occasionally transferred resistance to two additional antibiotics, neomycin and tetracycline, while one Citrobacter freundi donor always transferred linked resistance to all 11 drugs. Although many donors were found to harbour more than one species of plasmid DNA, all except a strain of C. freundi contained at least a plasmid of mol. wt 89 x 10(6). Analysis of E. coli transconjugants showed this plasmid to be responsible for transferable resistance to the nine core antibiotics. Restriction-endonuclease analysis indicates that the 89 x 10(6) plasmids originating from different isolates were essentially identical with each other. These results show that a particular R plasmid has established itself among the Enterobacteriaceae at Hines VA Hospital. This R plasmid appears to be the predominant genetic element responsible for linked resistance to carbenicillin, gentamicin and tobramycin among these hospital-associated bacteria.


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