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Single and multiple antibiotic-resistant strains were isolated from four insecticidal and two noninsecticidal parent strains ofBacillus sphaericus. Several of the single resistant strains isolated were also cross-resistant to several antibiotics of different modes of action. All of the parent strains were naturally susceptible to 11 and naturally resistant to two out of 22 antimicrobics examined. The majority, 17 out of 23, of antibiotic-resistant strains, that were isolated from the insecticidal parent strains, retained their insecticidal activity while the noninsecticidal strains remained noninsecticidal. Among the isolates were several strains that would be potentially useful as marker strains in the genetic manipulation of the insecticidal strains.
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Yurks, M.A., Singer, S. Isolation and description of antimicrobic-resistant (marker) strains of select insecticidal and noninsecticidal varieties ofBacillus sphaericus . Journal of Industrial Microbiology 1, 245–250 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01569278
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