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The transfer of antibiotic resistance by R plasmids in Shigellae
The New Zealand Medical Journal
|July 12, 1978
Abstract:
Forty-five strains of Shigella species isolated at Auckland Hospital from 1972--1974 were investigated for antibiotic resistance. Forty-two strains were resistant to one or more antibiotics and 11 strains transferred antibiotic resistance by conjugation to E. coli.