• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.299-305
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• 2002

Clinically isolated Salmonella Enteritidis strain has a multi drug resistance plasmid, which confers ampicillin, chloramphe-nicol, sulfonamide, streptomycin and tetracycline, named pCAST2. We cloned a 7 kb Sacl fragment of pCAST2 which has sulfonamide, streptomycin and tetracycline resistance genes. The 7 kb SacI fragment showed the organization of sulII-strA-strB-tetR-tetA gene cluster which is different from the other clusters reported previously. In this study, we presented the method to detect this cluster by PCR analysis and showed that this cluster was found in Salmonella strains occurred sporadically at Kyungpook province in 2002.