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Transferable Chloramphenicol Resistance in Salmonella typhi

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WE report an outbreak of typhoid from which Salmonella typhi strains carrying R factors to multiple antibiotics including Chloramphenicol have been isolated. Transferable drug resistance is common in Salmonella species which cause food poisoning1,2 but not in S. typhi, and no epidemic of chloramphenicol resistant typhoid fever has previously been observed3.

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    C. K. J. PANIKER & K. N. VIMALA

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PANIKER, C., VIMALA, K. Transferable Chloramphenicol Resistance in Salmonella typhi. Nature 239, 109–110 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/239109b0

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