Adherence of multiresistant strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae to cerebrospinal fluid shunts: correlation with plasmid content.

@article{Denoya1986AdherenceOM,
  title={Adherence of multiresistant strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae to cerebrospinal fluid shunts: correlation with plasmid content.},
  author={Claudio D. Denoya and Annalisa Trevisan and Jorge Zorz{\'o}pulos},
  journal={Journal of medical microbiology},
  year={1986},
  volume={21 3},
  pages={
          225-31
        }
}
A nosocomial multiresistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strain (KMD01) isolated from a patient with an infected ventriculoperitoneal (V-P) shunt was found to contain three plasmids of mol. wts (10(6)) c. 85, 50 and 2.4. A derivative isogenic strain (KMD11) carrying only the plasmids of mol. wts (10(6)) 50 and 2.4 was obtained spontaneously by plating the parent strain. The absence of the plasmid of mol. wt 85 X 10(6) in strain KMD11 correlated with an increased adherence to V-P catheters and glass… 
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