Application of a new phagetyping scheme to campylobacters isolated during outbreaks.

Epidemiology and infection ·Vol. 104 ·No. 3 ·1990-06-00 ·Pages 405-11

Salama SM, Bolton FJ, Hutchinson DN

Abstract

A new scheme for phagetyping campylobacters has been evaluated using strains isolated from five outbreaks. The phagetyping results have been compared with the results of Penner serotyping, Lior serotyping and Preston biotyping. Phagetyping recognized the causative strains in all of the incidents and also differentiated these strains from animal and environmental strains isolated during these investigations. In some outbreaks phagetyping proved to be more discriminatory than serotyping or biotyping, e.g. strains of Penner serotype 2, and serogroup 4, 13, 16, 50 were subdivided by this method. Phagetyping is to be recommended for typing strains from outbreaks and although the results indicate that it may be used alone we advocate that it should be used in conjunction with one of the established typing methods.

MeSH Terms

Animals Bacterial Typing Techniques Bacteriophage Typing Campylobacter/classification Campylobacter Infections/epidemiology,microbiology,veterinary Cattle Disease Outbreaks Dog Diseases/microbiology Dogs Goats Humans Milk/microbiology Predictive Value of Tests Serotyping

Authors & Affiliations

3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Salama S M

Public Health Laboratory, Royal Preston Hospital.

Bolton F J

Hutchinson D N

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Article Info

Journal

Epidemiology and infection

Abbr.

Epidemiol Infect

ISSN

0950-2688

DOI

10.1017/s0950268800047427

Published

1990-06-00

Pages

405-11

Language

English

Region

England

NLM ID

8703737

PMCID

PMC2271782

Subset

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