We followed the effects of subinhibitory concentrations (sub-MICs) of 7 antibiotics (ticarcilin, cefotaxim, streptomycin, gentamicin, ciprofloxacin, pefloxacin, mitomycin C) on the sensitivity of a Salmonella typhimurium strain to standard bacteriophages, on the phage DNA as well as on the factors of virulence (permeability and cytotoxic activity). The phage type was not changed by the sub-MICs of the tested antibiotics. However, differences were found in culture filtrates prepared from the bacterial suspensions of the strain cultivated with the sub-MICs. Marked inducing effects on phage DNA were exhibited by mitomycin C (1/2, 1/4, 1/8 of the MIC), pefloxacin (1/2, 1/4, 1/8 of the MIC) and ciprofloxacin (1/2, 1/4, weakly also 1/8 of the MIC). Ticarcilin (1/2 of the MIC), like the aminoglycosides streptomycin and gentamicin (1/2, 1/4, 1/8 of the MIC), had a weak effect. Sub-MICs of the studied antibiotics (with the exception of 1/8 of the MIC of ciprofloxacin and 1/4 of the MIC of ticarcilin) decreased the permeability reaction in rabbit skin. Most effective was streptomycin (1/2 of the MIC). Sub-MICs of the tested antibiotics (with the exception of 1/4 and 1/8 of the MIC of ciprofloxacin and 1/4 of the MIC of pefloxacin) caused also an inhibition of the factor responsible for morphological changes on Vero cells. Gentamicin and streptomycin were effective at all the sub-MICs tested.

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