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Comparative biotyping, bacteriocin typing, and serogrouping (O-antigens) of Serratia liquefaciens
1Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg.
Zentralblatt Fur Bakteriologie : International Journal of Medical Microbiology
|June 1, 1991
Abstract:
A total of 83 clinical isolates of Serratia liquefaciens from 81 patients were biotyped, bacteriocin typed (with group A phage tail bacteriocins from S. marcescens), and serogrouped. Biotyping afforded least discrimination, because 71 of the 83 isolates (85.5%) comprised 2 biotypes; the remainder were of 5 different biotypes. Bacteriocin typing differentiated 70 of the 83 isolates (84.3%) into 20 types. Polyclonal rabbit anti-O immune sera identified 16 O-antigens, and all 83 isolates could be serogrouped.