Antibiotic used
Unit
Zone of inhibition (in mm) produced on wild type strain
Zone of inhibition (in mm) produced on plasmid cured strain (mean ± S.D)
Methicillin
30 mcg
0.0 (Resistant)
31±3
Penicillin
30 mcg
0.0 (Resistant)
28±2
Table 1:
Table showing comparison of antibiotic sensitivity results between the wild type and its plasmid cured strain (n=3):
