Open AccessA comparison of flagellar typing and phage typing as means of subdividing the O groups of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Author(s) -
Tyrone Pitt
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of medical microbiology/journal of medical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.91
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1473-5644
pISSN - 0022-2615
DOI - 10.1099/00222615-14-3-261
Subject(s) - typing , pseudomonas aeruginosa , phage typing , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , bacteriophage , serology , virology , genetics , bacteria , escherichia coli , gene , antibody
Strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from hospitals were typed by O and H serology and bacteriophage typing. The H sera were prepared against purified flagella of six type strains. The most common O serogroups were O6, O11, O16 and O10, and together these groups represented more than half of the total number of strains. O subgrouping proved useful for the further division of groups O2 and O6. Percentage H typability was high, and many H patterns were found. Comparison of H typing and phage typing as a means of making subdivisions within O groups showed that, although the general discriminatory power of the two methods was similar, H typing performed better than phage-typing in the more common O serogroups.