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The Journal of Medical Microbiology, Vol 35, Issue 2 72-79, Copyright © 1991 by Society for General Microbiology

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Transfer of resistance determinants from a multi-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolate

E. E. Udo and W. B. Grubb
School of Medical Technology, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia.

The clinical isolate Staphylococcus aureus WBG1024 was resistant to cadmium, benzyl penicillin, kanamycin, neomycin, streptomycin, tetracycline and trimethoprim and harboured a conjugative plasmid pWBG637 (34.5 kb) and non-conjugative plasmids of 23.8, 4.4, 2.8 and 1.9 kb. Transduction and mixed-culture transfer experiments demonstrated that the 4.4-kb plasmid (pWBG632) encoded resistance to tetracycline and the 23.8-kb plasmid (pWBG628) encoded resistance to cadmium, benzyl penicillin, kanamycin, neomycin and streptomycin. The conjugative plasmid pWBG637 was able to mobilise a further 4.4-kb plasmid (pWBG633) encoding streptomycin resistance and recombined with the multiresistance plasmid pWBG628 to produce transconjugantes of various resistance phenotypes.


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