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. 1989 Sep;55(9):2344–2348. doi: 10.1128/aem.55.9.2344-2348.1989

Preliminary characterization of a food-borne multiple-antibiotic-resistant Salmonella typhimurium strain.

J D Schuman 1, E A Zottola 1, S K Harlander 1
PMCID: PMC203078  PMID: 2679385

Abstract

Plasmid characterization studies were conducted on a Salmonella typhimurium strain isolated from pasteurized milk and from a symptomatic patient during the 1985 Illinois salmonellosis outbreak. This strain (Hf) was reported to possess an unusual plasmid profile which distinguished it from all Salmonella strains isolated in the United States prior to 1984. Antibiotic susceptibility testing revealed that the strain was resistant to tetracycline, erythromycin, clindamycin, sulfisoxazole, sulfadiazene, triple sulfa, cefoperazone, streptomycin, mezlocillin, piperacillin, carbenicillin, penicillin, ampicillin, and kanamycin. Plasmid analysis revealed that the strain possessed four plasmids with sizes of approximately 158, 98, 10.2, and 6.0 kilobase pairs (kb). Successive transfer at 43 degrees C led to increased antibiotic sensitivity in 75.5% of the isolates screened. Electroporation and calcium chloride treatment were each used to transform plasmid-free Escherichia coli strains with the plasmid pool from S. typhimurium Hf. Plasmids introduced by transformation ranged in size from 4.4 to 23.2 kb and correlated with resistance to penicillin G, ampicillin, carbenicillin, cephalothin, cefoperazone, cefamandole, mezlocillin, piperacillin, and in some cases, tetracycline and kanamycin. DNA-DNA hybridization experiments localized these resistance genes to a highly duplicated 6.3-kb fragment of the total EcoRI restriction digest of the S. typhimurium Hf plasmid pool.

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