Role of a large plasmid of Salmonella typhi encoding multiple drug resistance Export

@article{mdr-typhi-calcutta-1991, abstract = {Summary. Twenty isolates of Salmonella typhi from cases of typhoid during the 1989-1990 epidemic in Calcutta were examined. Most isolates (84\% of all isolates in the epidemic) were resistant to chloramphenicol, ampicillin, tetracycline and streptomycin but were sensitive to nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin. Plasmids of 120 kb and 14 kb were identified amongst the multi-drug resistant isolates of S. typhi. However, there was no plasmid in the antibiotic-sensitive isolates. The 120-kb plasmid was transferable and transconjugants were resistant to chloramphenicol, ampicillin, tetracycline and streptomycin. Restriction endonuclease analysis patterns after EcoRI digestion of the 120-kb antibiotic-resistance plasmids from the S. typhi isolates and transconjugants were similar. 10.1099/00222615-34-3-149}, author = {Karmaker, Shyamali and Biswas, D. and Shaikh, N. M. and Chatterjee, S. K. and Kataria, V. K. and Kumar, R.}, citeulike-article-id = {5110092}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/00222615-34-3-149}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/34/3/149}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2010905}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=2010905}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1099/00222615-34-3-149}, journal = {J Med Microbiol}, keywords = {calcutta, mdr, typhoid}, month = {March}, number = {3}, pages = {149--151}, posted-at = {2009-07-10 19:59:13}, priority = {2}, title = {Role of a large plasmid of Salmonella typhi encoding multiple drug resistance}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/00222615-34-3-149}, volume = {34}, year = {1991} }

TY - JOUR ID - mdr-typhi-calcutta-1991 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5110092 N2 - Summary. Twenty isolates of Salmonella typhi from cases of typhoid during the 1989-1990 epidemic in Calcutta were examined. Most isolates (84% of all isolates in the epidemic) were resistant to chloramphenicol, ampicillin, tetracycline and streptomycin but were sensitive to nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin. Plasmids of 120 kb and 14 kb were identified amongst the multi-drug resistant isolates of S. typhi. However, there was no plasmid in the antibiotic-sensitive isolates. The 120-kb plasmid was transferable and transconjugants were resistant to chloramphenicol, ampicillin, tetracycline and streptomycin. Restriction endonuclease analysis patterns after EcoRI digestion of the 120-kb antibiotic-resistance plasmids from the S. typhi isolates and transconjugants were similar. 10.1099/00222615-34-3-149 IS - 3 JF - J Med Microbiol EP - 151 TI - Role of a large plasmid of Salmonella typhi encoding multiple drug resistance VL - 34 SP - 149 KW - calcutta KW - mdr KW - typhoid AU - Karmaker, Shyamali AU - Biswas, D AU - Shaikh, NM AU - Chatterjee, SK AU - Kataria, VK AU - Kumar, R PY - 1991/03/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/00222615-34-3-149 ER -