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DNA probes for K-antigen (capsule) typing of Escherichia coli
M Roberts1, I Roberts, T K Korhonen
1Department of Genetics, University of Leicester, England.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
DNA restriction fragments derived from the polysaccharide biosynthesis regions of cloned Escherichia coli K1, K5, and K12 capsular antigen genes hybridized only with DNA of strains determined by conventional methods to be of the same K serotype. A probe derived from the common transport region hybridized to all encapsulated E. coli strains.