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Application of three typing schemes (Penner, Lior, Preston) to strains of Campylobacter spp. isolated from three outbreaks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

D. N. Hutchinson ,
F. J. Bolton ,
D. M. Jones ,
E. M. Sutcliffe  and
J. D. Abbott
D. N. Hutchinson*
Affiliation:
The Public Health Laboratory, Preston Infirmary, Meadow Street, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 6PS, UK
F. J. Bolton
Affiliation:
The Public Health Laboratory, Preston Infirmary, Meadow Street, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 6PS, UK
D. M. Jones
Affiliation:
The Public Health Laboratory, Withington Hospital, Manchester, 3120 8LR, UK
E. M. Sutcliffe
Affiliation:
The Public Health Laboratory, Withington Hospital, Manchester, 3120 8LR, UK
J. D. Abbott
Affiliation:
The Public Health Laboratory, Withington Hospital, Manchester, 3120 8LR, UK
*
*Correspondence to Dr D. N. Hutchinson.
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Campylobacters isolated from human, animal and environmental sources during the investigation of a milk-borne outbreak, an incident involving goats' milk and an outbreak associated with puppies were serotyped using the Penner and Lior schemes and biotyped using the Preston scheme. Application of these three methods to the incident strains demonstrated that heterogenicity amongst similar strains exists. This study has confirmed the need to use at least two typing methods when investigating epidemiologically-related strains and we suggest that a combination of a serotyping scheme and an extended biotyping scheme is the most useful.

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Research Article
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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 98 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 139 - 144
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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