Molecular analysis of multiple-resistance plasmids transferred from gram-negative bacteria isolated in a urological unit.

AUTOR(ES)

Griffin, H G

RESUMO

Forty-one isolates of multiply resistant gram-negative bacteria causing infection in a urological unit of a Dublin hospital were collected during a 6-month period. Twenty-one isolates transferred multiple resistance to an Escherichia coli K-12 recipient in liquid matings. Serratia marcescens, Proteus morganii, Proteus vulgaris, and E. coli isolates harbored similar 120-megadalton IncC plasmids, whereas Enterobacter cloacae strains transferred a 160-megadalton plasmid of a different Inc group. Southern hybridization experiments were performed with purified fragments cloned from one IncC plasmid as probes. They were hybridized to plasmid sequences in total cellular DNA extracts, showing that the IncC plasmids were very closely related. This suggests that the same plasmid has transferred to different bacterial species in the hospital environment.

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