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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-3
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-3
pubmed:abstractText
One hundred strains of Listeria monocytogenes from both sporadic and epidemic cases were typed by monocin production combined with phage receptor and reverse phage receptor methods. The monocin-phage combination gave 72 types with 100% typability and 97% reproducibility. The results were compared to those of serotyping, phage typing, ribotyping, multilocus enzyme electrophoresis, restriction enzyme analysis and RAPD (random amplification of polymorphic DNA). The monocin/phage types were comparable in terms of discrimination with other methods for epidemiological investigations. The index of discrimination of using the monocin typing and phage receptor/reverse phage receptor method combination (0.99) for both the 87 epidemiologically unrelated strains and the epidemiologically important serogroup 4 strains was the highest of the seven different methods analysed. This combination of methods was simple, highly discriminatory and reproducible and can be carried out in a non-specialized laboratory. However, like most of the other Listeria typing methods, both the method and the indicator test strains need to be standardized.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0168-1605
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
245-62
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Typing of Listeria monocytogenes by monocin and phage receptors.
pubmed:affiliation
Centre National de Référence des Listérias, WHO Collaborating Center for Foodborne Listeriosis, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study