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Volume 30, Issue 2

Ampicillin Inactivation and Sensitivity of Coliform Bacilli Free

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SUMMARY:

Ampicillin sensitivity tests and tests for ampicillin inactivation were made with 148 strains of coliform bacilli. A correlation was found in strains of and Klebsiella between ampicillin resistance and inactivation. No correlation was obtained with , whether sensitive or resistant to ampicillin, although small amounts of penicillinase were produced. Ampicillin-sensitive strains of showed even lower amounts of penicillinase. The strains of () were resistant to ampicillin, but also showed low penicillinase levels. No evidence of induction of penicillinase was obtained with or Klebsiella in the presence of methicillin, ampicillin or cephalosporin C. The ampicillin-inactivating enzyme is a β-lactamase, not an amidase. Resistance of ampicillin-sensitive strains of was increased rapidly by serial subcultures but was not associated with higher penicillinase values. Ampicillin was inactivated less rapidly than was benzylpenicillin by penicillinase from an strain.

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Ampicillin Inactivation and Sensitivity of Coliform Bacilli
Microbiology 30, 339 (1963); https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-30-2-339
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