Narrow host range of some streptococcal R plasmids |
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Authors: | Thea Horodniceanu Annie Buu-Hoï Chantal Le Bouguenec Gilda Bieth |
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Affiliation: | Reference Center of Streptococci, Unité de Bactériologie Medicale, Institut Pasteur, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France |
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Abstract: | Nine R plasmids originally harbored by Streptococcus faecalis (pIP614, pIP655, pIP685, pIP686, pIP 1075, pIP1017),S. faecium (pIP716, pIP991), and group B Streptococcus (pMV120) wild-type hosts were transferred by conjugation into various recipients in order to study the extent of their intraspecies, interspecies, and intergeneric host range. Recipients were streptococci of groups A, B, C, D (S. faecalis, S. faecium, S. durans, S. bovis), and G, S. sanguis, two S. pneumoniae strains (encapsulated and nonencapsulated), and two strains of different genera, Staphylococcus aureus and Listeria inocua. The plasmids carried different antibiotic resistance markers: tetracycline, high levels of gentamicin and kanamycin or of streptomycin and kanamycin, and chloramphenicol. These R plasmids displayed narrow host ranges. They transferred into S. faecalis recipients and plasmid DNA could be detected in these transconjugants. Occasionally, the R plasmids also transferred into one or more other recipients, but no detectable plasmid DNA could be demonstrated in the new hosts. |
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