Survey of plasmids and resistance factors among veterinary isolates ofSalmonella enteritidisin Malaysia
✍ Scribed by R. Son; A. Ansary; I. Salmah; A. Maznah
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 450 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1573-0972
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✦ Synopsis
Thirty-five veterinary isolates of Salmonella enteritidis were characterized by their susceptibility to 10 antimicrobial agents and by their plasmid profiles on agarose gel electrophoresis. All were susceptible to carbenicillin, chloramphenicol and nalidixic acid but 89% were resistant to tetracycline. When examined, 91% of the isolates harboured plasmids, with sizes ranging from 9.8 to 60 MDa. However, it was only possible to associate the presence of plasmids with tetracycline resistance; plasmids occurring in 90% of the tetracycline-resistant isolates. In conjugation experiments, with Escherichia coli K12 Nal(r) as recipient, the tetracycline resistance in three selected S. enteritidis isolates was observed to transfer at frequencies of 3.0×10(-3) to 1.0×10(-2)/donor cell. The concomitant transfer of a 56-MDa or 60-MDa plasmid in these three S. enteritidis isolates was also detected.