DISCRIMINATION OF URINARY STRAINS OF ESCHERICHIA COLI BY FIVE TYPING METHODS
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of Medical Microbiology
- Vol. 13 (3) , 437-444
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00222615-13-3-437
Abstract
E. coli cultures [156], isolated from sequential urines from 20 patients with urinary-tract infection, were examined by biotyping, resistotyping, hemagglutinin typing, O serotyping and antibiogram typing. From 10 of the patients, cultures of a single strain were isolated; from each of the other 10 patients, different strains were discriminated. All cultures were typable by biotyping and resistotyping and those techniques should prove practicable for laboratories not able to perform complete serological analysis. Only a minority (43.6%) of the cultures was typed with a limited range of 24 commercial O sera. Maximum discrimination of strains was achieved by the combined use of several of these techniques.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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