Abstract
A total of 949 strains of Salmonella typhi isolated in Korea from 1968 to 1975 were tested for drug resistance and distribution of R plasmids. Resistance was mostly restricted to streptomycin (SM) and sulfisomidine (SA), singly or in combination, at a low degree. A small number of strains (1.5%) were resistant to four or more drugs: chloramphenicol (CM), tetracycline (TC), SM, SA, ampicillin (AP), and kanamycin (KM). No strain was resistant to nalidixic acid or to a 1:20 mixture of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole. Nor was there any strain singly resistant to CM, TC, AP, or KM. Transfer experiments of multiple-drug resistance to Escherichia coli ML1410 showed that all the strains resistant to four or more drugs carried R plasmids, whereas those weakly resistant to three or less drugs did not. The quadruply resistant strains carried one R plasmid determining CM, TC, SM, and SA resistance, and sextuply resistant ones carried two plasmids, one determining CM, TC, SM, and SA resistance and the other determining AP and KM resistance. One strain carrying a plasmid determining AP and KM resistance was also found. The transfer frequency of CM, TC, SM, and SA resistance was much higher than that of AP and KM resistance. The resistance of S. typhi was more efficiently transferred to E. coli at 25°C than at 37°C.
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