Plasmid profile analysis of clinical isolates of acinetobacter species in Malaysia
Forty clinical isolates of Acinetobacter species were collected from Selayang hospital, Selangor, Malaysia. The strains were isolated from respiratory tract, urine and pus. All the isolates were re-identified and confirmed as Acinetobacter species in our laboratory. Plasmids were detected in 16 isol...
| Published in: | Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences
2016
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| Online Access: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84996619202&partnerID=40&md5=1c42a74551eb921fa1acab8c33f8b717 |
| Summary: | Forty clinical isolates of Acinetobacter species were collected from Selayang hospital, Selangor, Malaysia. The strains were isolated from respiratory tract, urine and pus. All the isolates were re-identified and confirmed as Acinetobacter species in our laboratory. Plasmids were detected in 16 isolates with the plasmid occurrence rate (POR) of 40%. These 16 isolates appear to harbor 1 or more plasmids with the maximum of 4 plasmids. The sizes of the plasmid DNA range from the lowest 1.8 kb to the highest 8 kb. Supercoil DNA marker was used to provide reference plasmids of known molecular weight. This helped in calculating the molecular weight of the plasmids in this study. |
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| ISSN: | 9758585 |