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. 1981 May;19(5):831–835. doi: 10.1128/aac.19.5.831

Transmissible plasmids from Campylobacter jejuni.

D E Taylor, S A De Grandis, M A Karmali, P C Fleming
PMCID: PMC181531  PMID: 7294767

Abstract

Tetracycline resistance in clinical isolates of Campylobacter jejuni was shown to be plasmid mediated. Intra- and interspecies transfers to C. fetus subsp. fetus were demonstrated. The frequency of transfer was increased by approximately 100-fold on a solid surface by using a plate- or filter-mating procedure, as compared with a liquid-mating method. Results of experiments in which cell-free filtrates were used to replace the donor strain in mating experiments tend to rule out bacteriophage-mediated transduction in the transfer of tetracycline resistance. The plasmid-transfer frequency was not affected when deoxyribonuclease was added to the agar used in the mating experiments, indicating that transformation was not involved. Four transmissible plasmids from different tetracycline-resistant strains of C. jejuni each had a molecular weight of 38 x 10(6). Transfer of these plasmids to Escherichia coli was not demonstrated.

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