BACTERIOPHAGE-TYPING OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS-HYICUS SUBSP HYICUS ISOLATED FROM PIGS

  • 1 January 1983
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 44  (8) , 1476-1479
Abstract
Four phages were isolated and used for typing S. hyicus ssp. hyicus isolated from pigs with or without exudative epidermatitis (EE) in Japan. Of the 75 isolates, 64 (85.3%) were typable at routine test dilution (RTD) or 100 .times. RTD. Two or more phage patterns were present in the isolates from each pig with EE. All isolates from healthy pigs showed a single phage pattern. Fourteen (32.6%) of 43 isolates and 7 (87.5%) of 8 isolates from pigs with EE in Belgium and Czechoslovakia, respectively, were typable with the 4 phages. None of 180 isolates of S. aureus, 7 (6.4%) of 110 isolates of S. intermedius and 2 (2.3%) of 86 isolates of S. epidermidis were typable.