Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia
Abstract
The feces of five patients admitted to a hospital during an outbreak of cholera in Melbourne, Australia, in November 1972, were examined for the presence of tetracycline-resistant coliforms and tetracycline-resistant strains of
Vibrio cholerae
. Despite the abundance of tetracycline-resistant coliforms able to transfer this resistance to other strains of
Escherichia coli
, no tetracycline-resistant strains of
V. cholerae
were detected. In vitro transfer experiments using the
V. cholerae
strain responsible for the outbreak as recipient revealed that it was a particularly poor host for most R plasmids.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology
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