Linkage of heat-stable enterotoxin activity and ampicillin resistance in a plasmid isolated from an Escherichia coli strain of human origin
- 1 November 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Infection and Immunity
- Vol. 30 (2), 617-620
- https://doi.org/10.1128/iai.30.2.617-620.1980
Abstract
In an E. coli strain of human origin, ampicillin resistance and heat-stable enterotoxin activity were shown by EcoRI restriction endonuclease and genetic analysis to be in an 80 megadalton plasmid.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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