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Indications of in vivo transfer of an epidemic R plasmid from Salmonella enteritidis to Escherichia coli of the normal human gut flora.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Apr 1996
Balis E, Vatopoulos A C, Kanelopoulou M, Mainas E, Hatzoudis G, Kontogianni V, Malamou-Lada H, Kitsou-Kiriakopoulou S, Kalapothaki V
Abstract excerpt
The presence of conjugative R plasmids as well as the possible similarities among them were studied in nine ampicillin-resistant Salmonella enteritidis isolates and nine ampicillin-resistant Escherichia coli isolates from the normal fecal flora that were simultaneously isolated from nine epidemiologically unrelated outpatients. It was found that in eight patients, ampicillin resistance in S. enteritidis was...
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