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Common Beta-lactamase-specifying Plasmid in Haemophilus Ducreyi and Neisseria Gonorrhoeae

Overview
Journal Antimicrob Agents Chemother
Publisher American Society for Microbiology
Specialty Pharmacology
Date 1984 Feb 1
PMID 6424563
Citations 13
Authors
B Anderson
W L Albritton
J Biddle
S R Johnson
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Abstract

Eighty-nine strains of Haemophilus ducreyi from a chancroid epidemic in Orange County, California, were examined for plasmid content. Seventy-eight (88%) of these isolates were found to contain a plasmid of 3.2 megadaltons which conferred beta-lactamase production. Restriction endonuclease digests indicated that this was the same plasmid that was found in some strains of beta-lactamase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

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