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Lectin typing of Campylobacter concisus
Rune Aabenhus1, Sean O Hynes, Henrik Permin
1Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Hygiene, National University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|February 5, 2002
Abstract:
A total of 44 clinical isolates and the type strain of the putative pathogen Campylobacter concisus were grouped based on their reactions with plant lectins. The optimized lectin typing system used C. concisus strains proteolytically pretreated and subsequently typed by using a panel of four lectins. The system grouped all 45 strains into 13 lectin reaction patterns, leaving no strain untypeable due to autoagglutination. Lectin types were both stable and reproducible.