Affiliation:
1. Institut Pasteur, Unité de Biologie des Spirochètes, Paris, France
Abstract
ABSTRACT
We measured the frequency of appearance of spontaneous mutants resistant to gentamicin, kanamycin, streptomycin, and spectinomycin in saprophytic and pathogenic
Leptospira
strains. The mutations responsible for the spontaneous resistance to streptomycin and spectinomycin were identified in the
rpsL
and
rrs
genes, respectively. We also generated a gentamicin resistance cassette that allows the use of a third selectable marker in leptospires. These results may facilitate further advances in gene transfer systems in
Leptospira
spp.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
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