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Incidence of plasmids in multiply-resistant salmonella isolates from diarrhoeal patients in Hong Kong from 1973–82

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Julia Ling  and
P. Y. Chau
Julia Ling
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong
P. Y. Chau
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
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Plasmids present in multiply-resistant salmonella strains including Salmonella typhimurium, S. johannesburg, S. wandsworth, S. derby, S. newport, S. london and S. choleraesuis causing diarrhoea in patients in Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong from 1973–82 were studied. In multiply-resistant S. typhimurium, plasmids belonging to groups F1me, H1, or H2 and plasmids encoding trimethoprim-resistance which were compatible with standard plasmids of testable incompatibility groups were detected. In S. johannesburg, both the ASTCKSu- and ASCKSu- resistant strains which were predominant in two consecutive periods of an outbreak were found to harbour the same plasmid which belonged to the incompatibility group F1me. S. wandsworth strains isolated from a hospital outbreak in 1980 harboured an identical R-plasmid belonging to group N. A few strains of the other salmonellae showing resistance to multiple antibiotics were found to harbour R-plasmids belonging to groups H1, H2 and F1me. The only salmonella of the enteric fever group resistant to ampicillin, chloramphenicol and trimethoprim was an S. paratyphi B strain. The resistances were encoded on a plasmid of an unknown incompatibility group. The occurrence and distribution of plasmids in these salmonellae isolated within the 10-year period are discussed.

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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 99 , Issue 2 , October 1987 , pp. 307 - 321
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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