R-Factors: Their Properties and Possible Control: Symposium, Baden near Vienna, April 27–29, 1977

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Evolutionary Aspects of Plasmid Mediated Resistance in a Hospital Environment....Pages 5-23
The Geographical Predominance of Resistance Transfer Systems of Various Compatibility Groups in Salmonellae....Pages 25-41
Effect of an Antibiotic-Supplemented Feed on the Ecology of E. coli on a Farm....Pages 43-60
The Survival of R-Plasmids in the Absence of Antibiotic Selection Pressure....Pages 61-77
Limitations on the Transposition of TnA....Pages 81-100
Transposable Neomycin Phosphotransferases....Pages 101-114
The Transposition of Ampicillin Resistance: Nature of Ampicillin Resistant Haemophilus influenzae and Neisseria gonorrhoeae....Pages 115-129
Properties of DNA Insertion Elements of E. coli....Pages 131-140
Studies on IS DNA....Pages 141-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
The Coding of Small RNA Molecules by the Resistance Factor R 1....Pages 153-164
Evolutional Process of the Formation of Multiple Resistance Plasmids....Pages 165-180
Plasmid-Mediated Tetracycline Resistance in E. coli....Pages 181-206
What Is the Mechanism of Plasmid-Determined Resistance to Aminoglycoside Antibiotics?....Pages 207-219
Effect of Plasmids on Cell Division and on the Cell Envelope of Escherichia coli....Pages 221-240
Molecular Cloning of DNA from the R-Plasmid R6K....Pages 243-260
Dissociation and Recombination of Fragments with Defined Functions of the Antibiotic Resistance Factor R1....Pages 261-275
The Molecular Nature of R-Factors in Different Bacterial Hosts....Pages 277-298
Copy Mutants of the Plasmid R 1 as a Tool in Studies of Control of Plasmid Replication....Pages 299-332
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
a) Measures Against the Spread of R-Factors....Pages 335-342
Possible Pharmaceutical Approaches to the Control of R-Factors....Pages 343-348
Back Matter....Pages 349-362