Effect of Resistance to Chloramphenicol on Bacteriophage Sensitivity of Group A Streptococci 1
AUTOR(ES)
Friend, Patric L.
RESUMO
Several phage hosts of group A streptococci became resistant to lysis by bacteriophage as a consequence of having acquired the ability to grow in the presence of chloramphenicol. The phage was adsorbed to the streptococcal cell, and P32-labeling of the phage showed that the phage genome penetrated the chloramphenicol (CM)- resistant cells as it did the parent cells. However, artificial lysis of the infected CM-resistant cells with chloroform or enzymes revealed no intracellular mature phage particles. Lysates of infected CM-resistant cells contained no phage-related antigenic materials which possessed serum-blocking power, although they were readily detected in lysates of infected parent cells. The CM-resistant cells were not lysogenized by the phage. Only cells resistant to more than 10 μg/ml of chloramphenicol were resistant to phage, and this threshold effect was taken as an indication of at least two different loci of chloramphenicol resistance on the streptococcal genome. Strains resistant to high levels of other antibiotics, such as streptomycin and erythromycin, showed no resistance to lysis by phage. Evidence indicated that the mutant cells were deficient in an essential function associated with the phage genome.
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