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COMPARISON OF ANTIGENIC STRUCTURE AND PHAGE PATTERN WITH BIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS STRAINS ISOLATED FROM DOGS AND PIGEONS
Author(s) -
OEDING P.,
MARANDON J.L.,
HÁJEK V.,
MARŠÁLEK E.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section b microbiology and immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-5563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1970.tb04321.x
Subject(s) - biology , microbiology and biotechnology , strain (injury) , antigen , phage typing , virology , typing , genetics , anatomy
Seventy‐five strains of coagulase‐positive staphylococci isolated from the nostrils of healthy dogs and 67 strains isolated from the nostrils of pigeons have been typed both serologically and with the standard set of human phages as well as with selected bovine phages. Biochemically 10 of the dog strains were of the human biotype. All of these were typable serologically and 8 were sensitive to the phages vised. Sixty‐three dog strains and all the pigeon strains showed to a great extent biochemical properties corresponding to the canine biotype. Of the whole group of these white‐pigmented isolates only one strain of pigeon origin was typable by phage. The dog strains and the pigeon strains differed serologically. Eighty‐five per cent of the true canine strains isolated from dogs were easily typable. The dominant antigen was a 5 and there were only few antigenic patterns. Of the pigeon strains only 24 per cent were typable. In agreement with other investigations the present investigation shows that canine strains can quite successfully be typed serologically whereas the human and bovine phage sets are of little use. This reflects a fundamental difference between the two typing systems.