Article
[Independence of plasmids harboured in the "Escherichia coli" of patients in hospital without antibiotics (author's transl)].
Annales de microbiologie - 1 Jan 2000
Avril J L, Gerbaud G R
Abstract excerpt
A study has been carried out of the faeces of nine patients in the same surgical ward. Viable counts and detection of drug resistance were effected by a replica plating method. Bacteria harbouring the drug resistance pattern (ST) were found in seven faeces. Among them, five R plasmids (ST) were transferred to Escherichia coli K12 and have been differentiated by incompatibility studies. As they didn't belong to...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Conjugation, Genetic
- Cross Infection
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Escherichia coli
- Feces
- Humans
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Phenotype
- R Factors
- Transduction, Genetic
