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. 1975 Aug;8(2):111–116. doi: 10.1128/aac.8.2.111

Potential for In Vivo Acquisition of R Plasmids by One Strain of Vibrio cholerae Biotype El Tor

R Brent Davey 1, James Pittard 1
PMCID: PMC429276  PMID: 1101813

Abstract

The feces of five patients admitted to a hospital during an outbreak of cholera in Melbourne, Australia, in November 1972, were examined for the presence of tetracycline-resistant coliforms and tetracycline-resistant strains of Vibrio cholerae. Despite the abundance of tetracycline-resistant coliforms able to transfer this resistance to other strains of Escherichia coli, no tetracycline-resistant strains of V. cholerae were detected. In vitro transfer experiments using the V. cholerae strain responsible for the outbreak as recipient revealed that it was a particularly poor host for most R plasmids.

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