Previously Undescribed 6.6-kilobase R Plasmid in Penicillinase-producing Neisseria Gonorrhoeae

Overview

Journal Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Pharmacology

Date 1986 Jun 1

PMID 3089144

Citations 19

Authors

A Gouby

G Bourg

M Ramuz

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Abstract

A penicillin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain was isolated. The resistance was due to the production of TEM-1 beta-lactamase encoded by a plasmid. This 6.6-kilobase plasmid was compared with the previously known 7.4- and 5.3-kilobase penicillin R plasmids of N. gonorrhoeae.

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