Serological identification of pig enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli strains not belonging to the classical serotypes.

Infection and Immunity
P A GuinéeJ F Frik

Abstract

Escherichia coli strains isolated from pigs suspected to have succumbed to E. coli enterotoxicosis and not belonging to the commonly incriminated (classical) serotypes (O8:K87:K88, O45:K88, O138:K81:K88, O141:K85:K88, O147:K89:K88, O149:K91;K88, and O157:K88) were tested for enterotoxigenicity in the ligated gut test (LGT) using pig intestine. Of 202 strains tested, 54 strains belonging to 13 different O groups were positive in the LGT. Four of these strains had K88 antigen and one possessed K99 antigen. The majority of the strains was not agglutinated by any of the standard OK antisera. Four new K antigens ("K200", "K442", "K2346" and "K2347") were provisionally designated. K200 was found in pig enterotoxigenic strains belonging to O group 8 and carrying flagellar antigen H31 and in non-enterotoxigenic non-motile strains of O group 8, as well as in O group 20 strains isolated from calves succumbing to E. coli septicemia in two countries. The provisional antigen K2346 was encountered in 18 enterotoxigenic strains with various O antigens from two countries. It is proposed to include these two K antigens into the international E. coli antigens scheme. Attempts to demonstrate a common antigen in the nonclassical enterotoxigenic st...Continue Reading

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