PMID: 6987298Apr 1, 1980Paper

The epidemiological type identification of Serratia marcescens from outbreaks of infection in hospitals

The Journal of Hygiene
T L PittC Bucher

Abstract

A study of serological, bacteriocine and phage typing of Serratia marcescens was made. Specific O-antisera of adequate titre were relatively simple to prepare but H-antisera exhibited many heterologous agglutination reactions amongst the type strains. Most of these cross-reactions were not reproduced when immobilization tests with H-sera were performed. Direct haemagglutination tests were used to establish the presence of fimbriae amongst the H-type strains and the results of agglutination tests with non-fimbriate variants of strains indicated that fimbrial antibody in high titre was present in some sera. Replicate typing of 100 pairs of cultures by the phage-typing method indicated that small variations in pattern were common and that larger variations occurred occasionally. Therefore differences in pattern of less than two strong reactions should not be taken as evidence that strains can be distinguished. Cultures of S. marcescens, 273 in total, from six outbreaks of infection in British and European hospitals were typed by O-serology, H agglutination and immobilization tests, phage typing and bacteriocine susceptibility by a cross-streaking method. The typability of strains by each method was high but the results suggested t...Continue Reading

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May 9, 2000·FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology·G V CarbonellB A Fonseca
Aug 1, 1988·Epidemiology and Infection·A M DasT L Pitt
Aug 1, 1982·Journal of Clinical Pathology·D C Old
Feb 6, 1998·Zentralblatt für Veterinärmedizin. Reihe B. Journal of veterinary medicine. Series B·G Di GuardoP Calderini
Dec 1, 1981·The Journal of Hospital Infection·D J Platt, J S Sommerville
Sep 1, 1980·The Journal of Hospital Infection·A T Ghoneim, M E Day
Mar 1, 1982·The Journal of Hospital Infection·T L Pitt
Jan 1, 1982·Microbiology and Immunology·M NasuI Goto
Sep 1, 1982·The Journal of Hospital Infection·D W BullockP J Wilkinson
Oct 1, 1996·Microbial Drug Resistance : MDR : Mechanisms, Epidemiology, and Disease·K ColomR Cisterna
Dec 1, 1989·Journal of Clinical Microbiology·M A Gaston, T L Pitt
Jan 1, 1990·Journal of Clinical Microbiology·A McGeerA E Simor
Jan 1, 1997·Journal of Clinical Microbiology·H M AuckenT L Pitt
May 1, 1993·Journal of Clinical Microbiology·H M Aucken, T L Pitt

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