Extrachromosomal Control of Methicillin Resistance and Toxin Production in Staphylococcus aureus

Author:

Dornbusch Kathrine1,Hallander Hans O.1,Löfquist Finn1

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

Abstract

All of 41 naturally occurring coagulase-positive methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated in various laboratories were resistant to several antibiotics and were lipase-negative. Most strains produced hemolysins, and 38 strains produced enterotoxin B. Acriflavine treatment of four strains resulted in elimination of resistance to methicillin and mercury; in one strain, resistance to cadmium was also lost. Production of enterotoxin B and β-hemolysin was eliminated in all four strains and penicillinase production was eliminated in one strain. In transduction experiments, methicillin resistance and enterotoxin B production were transferred together at a frequency of 0.2 × 10 −8 to 1.1 × 10 −8 by use of ultraviolet-induced phage lysates from naturally lysogenic methicillin-resistant strains. Cotransductions of resistance to mercury and cadmium, as well as production of penicillinase and β-hemolysin, were obtained to some extent. The extrachromosomal character of these determinants and their possible genetic association are discussed.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology

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