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Abstract
We examined 14 multiresistant and 8 ampicillin- or tetracycline-resistant Haemophilus influenzae isolates and 4 ampicillin-resistant H. parainfluenzae isolates for plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid. Sixteen strains carried plasmids. Both "plasmid-free" and plasmid-carrying isolates transferred the antibiotic resistance by conjugation. All transconjugants carried plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid, suggesting that the apparent plasmid-free strains contained R plasmids encoding for antibiotic resistance.Entities:
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Year: 1980 PMID: 6968310 PMCID: PMC294691 DOI: 10.1128/jb.144.1.476-479.1980
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490