| Literature DB >> 10664971 |
M Fredriksson-Ahomaa1, T Autio, H Korkeala.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) for differentiation of isolates of Yersinia enterocolitica bioserotype 4/O:3 recovered from pig tongues at retail level in the Helsinki area during October and November of 1996. NotI generated 15 different PFGE patterns for 128 isolates. The discriminatory index did not exceed 74% due to the presence of two predominant PFGE-types, NA1 (58/128) and NB1 (25/128). After preliminary investigations with 35 enzymes, ApaI, XbaI, XhoI and SpeI were chosen for further characterization of the isolates. The discriminatory index increased from 74% to 93% and the number of different genotypes from 15 to 30 when isolates with the same PFGE pattern with NotI were further characterized with ApaI and XhoI, indicating that PFGE can be an efficient technique for characterization of bioserotype 4/O:3.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID: 10664971 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2672.1999.00625.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lett Appl Microbiol ISSN: 0266-8254 Impact factor: 2.858