[Plasmid profiles of 120 strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa].
The plasmid profiles of 120 clinical isolates of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa (PA) from Nanjing City were determined by the Kado and Liu method and the technique was compared with other epidemiological typing schemes based on serotype. Only 24.2% of these strains harbored plasmids. A total of 13 different plasmid profiles were observed. Plasmids varied in size from 1.91 to 45.14 MDa. The serotypability was 95.00%. A comparison between the plasmid profiles and the serotypes might be of value in the epidemiologic fingerprinting of clinical isolates of PA.
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Nanjing Railway Medical College.
D005111:Extrachromosomal Inheritance / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D010957:Plasmids / Q000032:analysis*; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D012703:Serotyping