title: Isolation of clinical strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa harboring different plasmids.
abstract: Aim of this study was to investigate the presence of plasmids among the strains of P. aeruginosa isolated from clinically diagnosed cases in Tehran in 2006. A total of 38 strains of P. aeruginosa were isolated. With the exception of one isolate, all P. aeruginosa strains harbored at least one plasmid band. The electrophoretic analysis of plasmid DNAs showed different number of plasmid bands among the strains tested. The DNA band of 1.4 kbp was evident in 84.2% of the strains. Approximately 71 and 21% of the isolates harbored concomitantly two and three plasmids, respectively. Isolation of strains with diverse types of plasmids suggests the different cluster of P. aeruginosa might be disseminated during the current study period.
authors.affiliation: Research Center of Molecular Biology, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ranjbar
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Owlia
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Saderi
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Bameri
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Izadi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jonaidi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morovvati
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D005819:Genetic Markers; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D010957:Plasmids / Q000378:metabolism; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D005819:Genetic Markers; D004247:DNA