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Antibiotic resistance and plasmid profile of Aeromonas hydrophila isolates from cultured fish, Telapia (Telapia mossambica)


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Radu, Son and Rahmat Ali, Gulam Rusul and Abd Mutalib, Sahilah and Mohd Dzomir, Ahmad Zainuri and Abdul Rahim, Raha and Ismail, Salmah (1997) Antibiotic resistance and plasmid profile of Aeromonas hydrophila isolates from cultured fish, Telapia (Telapia mossambica). Letters in Applied Microbiology, 24 (6). pp. 479-482. ISSN 0266-8254

Abstract

Strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolates from skin lesions of the common freshwater fish, Telapia mossambica, were screened for the presence of plasmid DNA by agarose gel electrophoresis and tested for susceptibility to 10 antimicrobial agents. Of the 21 fish isolates examined, all were resistant to ampicillin and sensitive to gentamycin. Most isolates were resistant to streptomycin (57%), tetracycline (48%) and erythromycin (43%). While seven of 21 isolates harboured plasmids, with sizes ranging from 3 to 63·4 kilobase pair (kb), it was only possible to associate the presence of a plasmid with antibiotic resistance (ampicillin and tetracycline) in strain AH11. Both the plasmid and the associated antimicrobial resistance could be transferred to an Escherichia coli recipient by single-step conjugation at a frequency of 4·3×10−3 transconjugants per donor cell.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Food Science and Biotechnology
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1472-765X.1997.00156.x
Publisher: The Society for Applied Bacteriology
Keywords: Aeromonas hydrophila; Telapia; Antibiotic resistance; Plasmid
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 27 Apr 2017 09:52
Last Modified: 27 Apr 2017 09:52
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51099
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