Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1978) 4, 273-278
© 1978 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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Kanamycin resistance in Povidencia stuartii
Clinical Microbiology Unit, Dublin University, Adelaide Hospital Peter Street, Dublin 8, Eire Microbiology Department, Dudley Road Hospital Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 7QH, England
accepted 31 October 1977
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An increase in the frequency of isolation over a five year period from hospital specimens, of KmR (MIC> 100 mg/1) P. stuartii of various serotypes is reported. Resistance to Km, Nm, Cb and Ap (16 strains); Km, Nm, Su (one strain); and Km, Nm, Cb, Ap, Su (one strain) could be transferred to E. coli J5-3 rif. Inactivation of Km and Nm was by phosphorylation. Two types of phosphorylase, distinguishable by their action on Nm, were noted.