Table 2.

Antibiotic susceptibility profiles of S. xylosus strains determined by disk diffusion.

	Recipient	Donor	Transconjugants
			in vitro		In sausages
Disk	C2a	XIV 10B1	TC1	TC2	E2–1	E2–2	E2–3	E2–4
Tetracycline	38* (S)	10 (R)	10	11	11	11	10	10
Minocycline	38 (S)	30 (S)	36	34	38	34	36	34
Rifampicin	6 (R)	32 (S)	6	6	6	7	8	6
Fusidic acid	9 (R)	24 (S)	9	10	10	8	8	8
Penicillin G	34 (S)	14 (R)	34	33	36	32	30	32

^*Diameter expressed in mm.

S, sensitive; R, resistant.