| pubmed-article:16878601 | pubmed:abstractText | Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), multiplex PCR and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) methods were used for genotyping study of seventy-three L. monocytogenes isolates collected in Poland between 2000 and 2002 from human, food, environment and a diseased goat. The multiplex PCR, which is an alternative method to classical serotyping, divided the isolates into four PCR groups, IIa (42.5%), IIb (27.4%), IIc (4.1%) and IVb (26%). The isolates displayed 33 distinct PFGE profiles. Twenty eight strains were further characterised by MLST based on sequence analyses of seven housekeeping genes. The combined sequence analyses revealed a total of 10 different allelic profiles from which 3 were not described earlier. It is intended that results obtained in this study will be the first data of a national database of L. monocytogenes genotypes in Poland. | lld:pubmed |
