SELECTION OF COLONY, PLASMID, AND VIRULENCE VARIANTS OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS-EPIDERMIDIS NRC853 DURING GROWTH IN CONTINUOUS CULTURES EXPOSED TO ERYTHROMYCIN

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DEGUGLIELMO, MA
GEORGE, CG
KLOOS, WE
机构
[1] N CAROLINA STATE UNIV,DEPT GENET,RALEIGH,NC 27695
[2] N CAROLINA STATE UNIV,DEPT MICROBIOL,RALEIGH,NC 27695
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10.1128/AEM.57.4.1018-1025.1991
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Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
摘要
A continuous-culture system was developed to study changes in the structure of Staphylococcus epidermidis populations exposed to subminimum inhibitory concentrations of erythromycin. Continuous-culture experiments were carried out in a dextrose-free, tryptic soy broth medium supplemented with lactic acid and sodium lactate (MTSB-D). The multiresistant (penicillin-, tetracycline-, and erythromycin-resistant) S. epidermidis strain NRC853 was subjected to a series of experiments: (i) growth individually in continuous culture in the absence and presence of erythromycin and (ii) growth in mixed culture with the erythromycin-susceptible S. epidermidis strain NRC852 in the absence and presence of erythromycin. Strain NRC853 produced colony morphology variants during continuous culture in the presence of 0.05 and 0.1-mu-g of erythromycin per ml. Variants (A, B, and C) were different from their wild-type parent on the basis of colony size, sector pattern, and/or the ability to transmit light. A variants rapidly lost a 2.7-MDa tetracycline resistance plasmid. B and C variants formed an ermC plasmid multimer series from unit size to a 16-mer and exhibited an approximately twofold increase in erythromycin MIC over that of the wild-type parent. They slowly lost the tetracycline resistance plasmid. The small-colony B variant demonstrated an increased virulence in the neonatal mouse weight gain test and an increase in fibronectin binding compared with the wild-type parent. The presence of a competing strain drastically increased the frequency of all variants.
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