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. 1964 Oct;88(4):960–964. doi: 10.1128/jb.88.4.960-964.1964

GENETIC TRANSFER OF STREPTOMYCIN AND AMINOPROPANOLSTREPTOMYCIN RESISTANCE

Alexander Von Graevenitz 1
PMCID: PMC314838  PMID: 14219060

Abstract

von Graevenitz, Alexander (Yale University, New Haven, Conn.). Genetic transfer of streptomycin and aminopropanolstreptomycin resistance. J. Bacteriol. 88:960–964. 1964.—Transduction and conjugation experiments with Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli suggest that resistance to streptomycin (S) and aminopropanolstreptomycin (A) is due to the same mutation arising in a single step at the locus str. The high occurrence of SrAs cells (1 to 3%) in an SrAr population was noted. From genetic crosses of SrAs with SsAs cells, it can be concluded that there is a suppressor locus su-A adjacent to, but separable by recombination from, the str locus. It modifies the genotype SrAr to the phenotype SrAs.

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