Abstract
The resistance to antibiotics which has been increasingly observed in naturally occurringSalmonella panama, is due to an R-factor. A relationship was found between phage pattern and the presence of this R-factor. All strains belonging to phage types A, C and E are sensitive to all antibiotics and are indicated in phage-typing by wild-type phage 47 or host-range mutants of phage 47. All strains belonging to phage types B, D and F possess an R-factor and are indicated by host-modified variants of phage 47. Phage type G, indicated by a host-range mutant, and group Z contain strains with, as well as without an R-factor. Spontaneous drug-sensitive segregants of type B, D and F strains have the phage pattern A, C and E respectively. Conversely, the phage pattern of A, C and E type strains change into B, D and F respectively after infection with the R-factor ofS. panama. The theory can be advanced that type B type A+R-factor, D — C+R-factor and F = E+R-factor. This change in phage type can be considered to be due to the fact that the R-factor exerts restriction and modification of the phage which indicates theS. panama strain without the R-factor.
Many of the antibiotic-resistantEscherichia coli strains found in nature possess an R-factor which can be transferred toS. panama in vitro. Relatively few of these R-factors were found to possess also the restriction marker. Thus up to the present the number ofE. coli strains possessing an R-factor which is able to create a dependable combination of phage type and drug resistance inS. panama is relatively small.
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Guinée, P.A.M., Scholtens, R.T. & Willems, H.M.C.C. Influence of resistance-factors on the phage types ofSalmonella Panama . Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 33, 30–40 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02045531
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