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. 1979 Dec;83(3):531–538. doi: 10.1017/s0022172400026383

The occurrence of plasmids carrying genes for both enterotoxin production and drug resistance in Escherichia coli of human origin.

S M Scotland, R J Gross, T Cheasty, B Rowe
PMCID: PMC2130170  PMID: 390047

Abstract

Twenty-three of 89 enterotoxigenic strains of Escherichia coli were resistant to one or more antimicrobial agents. Eleven strains transferred resistance directly and five transferred resistance after mobilization. In three cases a resistant recipient was enterotoxigenic. One of these strains contained a conjugative plasmid carrying genes for both drug resistance and enterotoxin production. In the two other strains genes for drug resistance and enterotoxin production were carried on separate co-transferable plasmids.

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