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[Classification of Klebsiella strains with lectins]
L Rodríguez-Sánchez1, G Salazar-Gómez, A M Mesta-Howard
1Departamento de Microbiología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, México, D.F., Mexico.
Revista Latinoamericana De Microbiologia
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
Fourteen different plant seeds were used to obtain lectins which in turn were used to agglutinate 72 different serological strains of Klebsiella. The results were used to design a scheme which distinguishes 62 serotypes (91.6%) with a unique agglutination pattern with lectins. Two pairs of strains as well as two sets of three strains gave the same patterns. This procedure is useful as an alternative in the identification of strains for epidemiological purposes.