INVIVO SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DRUG-RESISTANCE IN TURKEYS

  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 37  (10) , 1211-1213
Abstract
Multiresistant Salmonella typhimurium donor and multisensitive Escherichia coli recipient spread from the infected group of turkey poults to the control group. Contact poults given only the S. typhimurium donor and placed in the same cage with infected poults given both the donor and the E. coli recipient exhibited in vivo patterns of antibiotic drug resistance transfer similar to the patterns obtained in the infected poults. This in vivo spread of antibiotic drug resistance in turkeys was established for the 1st time. The potential in vivo spread of infectious drug resistance could apparently occur in nature.

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