The Journal of Medical Microbiology, Vol 48, Issue 7 617-621, Copyright © 1999 by Society for General Microbiology

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Comparison of a commercial test for serotyping heat-stable antigens of Campylobacter jejuni with genotyping by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

H. Rautelin and M. L. Hanninen
Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, The Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital Diagnostics, Finland.

A new commercial serotyping set based on heat-stable Penner's antigens was compared with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) with SmaI and SacII restriction endonucleases. Among 50 isolates of Campylobacter jejuni from Finnish patients, which represented predominant PFGE patterns selected from isolates from sporadic cases and isolates associated with small outbreaks, 11 different serotypes were demonstrated from 43 typable isolates. Several PFGE patterns could be found within one serotype; on the other hand, several serotypes could be demonstrated within one PFGE type. Most isolates originated from sporadic cases; however, some isolates were epidemiologically associated and showed identical serotypes and PFGE patterns. Although the new serotyping set would have been useful in the few epidemic cases studied, several isolates (14%) representing the major PFGE patterns remained untypable or gave weakly positive agglutination reactions only suggesting a plausible serotype (18%). This might restrict the use of the novel serotyping set, at least in Finland.

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