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. 1984 Oct;48(4):905–907. doi: 10.1128/aem.48.4.905-907.1984

Survey of drug and phage resistance and colicin and hemolysin production among coliforms isolated in the Ivory Coast.

L Trudel, M Arriaga-Alba, M C Lavoie
PMCID: PMC241645  PMID: 6095758

Abstract

Analysis of 178 strains isolated as total and fecal coliforms in the Ivory Coast revealed that (i) hemolytic activity was scarce (0.6%) among this bacterial population; (ii) the most prevalent colicins detected were, in decreasing order, E, I, A, and G; (iii) the frequency of coliphage and drug resistance was similar to that observed in other countries, except for those of drug-resistant strains in animal feces, which were lower than in countries where animals are antibiotic fed; and (iv) one of the drug resistance plasmids seemed to possess a restriction-modification system and another seemed to code for capsular material.

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