Mechanisms of drug-resistance transfer in Bacteroides fragilis.
Mechanisms of drug-resistance transfer in Bacteroides fragilis.
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脆弱拟杆菌耐药性转移机制。
DOI:
10.1093/jac/8.suppl_d.59
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发表时间:
1981
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
F. Tally
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作者:
M. Malamy;F. Tally
The wide-spread use of antibiotics in medicine and agriculture has been accompanied by the isolation of bacteria resistant to high concentrations of these substances. For aerobic bacteria, several methods, including conjugation, transduction and transformation, have been documented which lead to the transfer or spread of genes determining antibiotic resistance to antibiotic sensitive cells of the same or related species. By far the most widespread and best-documented system for the transfer of resistance determinants involves conjugation mediated by plasmids which are called resistancetransfer factors or R-factors.Only recently has antibiotic resistance been properly studied in Bacteroides. Most strains of Bacteroides are resistant to some of the/Mactam antibiotics at low concentrations (8-64 mg/1) due to the presence of chromosomally encoded/Mactamases (Olsson, Dornbusch & Nord, 1979). In addition all Bacteroides are resistant to the aminoglycoside antibiotics, since these agents are not transported to the interior of these cells (Martin, Gardner & Washington, 1972). However, resistance to certain antibiotics, previously highly effective in the treatment of Bacteroides fragilis infections, has been recognized. More than 60% of all B. fragilis isolates are tetracycline resistant (tetO whereas before 1960 resistance to this drug was rare (Sutter, Kwok & Finegold, 1972). In addition, B. fragilis strains resistant to clindamycin and erythromycin (din1) are appearing (Salaki et ah, 1976). There have even been recent reports of epidemics of clindamycin-resistant Bacteroides in three hospitals in Detroit, Michigan and on the surgical wards of the University of Illinois Hospital (Bawdon et ah, 1979; Marsh et al., 1981). An increased incidence of high level/Mactam resistance, minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)> 128 mg/1, in Bacteroides has been noted recently (Marrie et al., 1981).