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. 1988 Aug;32(8):1271–1273. doi: 10.1128/aac.32.8.1271

Tetracycline resistance and TetM in oral anaerobic bacteria and Neisseria perflava-N. sicca.

M C Roberts 1, B J Moncla 1
PMCID: PMC172392  PMID: 3190205

Abstract

Tetracycline-resistant organisms isolated from six patients with periodontal disease included Bacteroides spp., Eubacterium spp., Fusobacterium nucleatum, Neisseria perflava-N. sicca, Peptostreptococcus anaerobius, Veillonella parvula, and facultative streptococci. All but the Bacteroides spp. and Eubacterium spp. hybridized with the TetM determinant. An additional 417 bacterial strains were screened, and 4% of both the oral streptococci and the Fusobacterium spp. hybridized with the TetM probe.

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