Plasmids in group JK coryneform bacteria isolated in a single hospital
- 19 October 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 97 (2) , 255-263
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022172400065347
Abstract
Summary: Investigation of 39 JK-type coryneform isolates from patients at a single hospital revealed that 23 possessed plasmids, which formed six groups on restriction endonuclease analysis. Four of the groups were associated with production of similar bacteriocin-like substances, and shared a minimum of 6·4 kilobase pairs of DNA. These plasmids, found in isolates from different patients, provide strong direct evidence that person-to-person transmission of JK bacteria had occurred within the hospital.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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