Analysis of whole-cell fatty acid profiles of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Salmonella enteritidis with the microbial identification system

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 757-760

  Steele, M ^a   Mcnab, W B ^a   Read, S ^b   Poppe, C ^b   Harris, L ^c   Lammerding, A M ^b   Odumeru, J A ^a  

^a FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS   (Canada)

^b Health of Animals Laboratory   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIPID COMPOSITION; METHYLATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; SALMONELLA ENTERITIDIS; SAPONIFICATION;

EID: 0030934305     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.2.757-760.1997     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Barrett, T. J., H. Lior, J. H. Green, R. Khakhria, J. J. Wells, B. P. Bell, K. D. Greene, J. Lewis, and P. M. Griffin. 1994. Laboratory investigation of a multistate food-home outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 by using pulsedfield gel electrophoresis and phage typing. J. Clin. Microbiol. 32:3013-3017.
2. Beltran, P., J. M. Musser, R. Helmuth, J. J. Farmer III, W. M. Frerichs, I. K. Wachsmuth, K. Ferris, A. C. McWhorter, J. G. Wells, A. Cravioto, and R. K. Selander. 1988. Toward a population genetic analysis of Salmonella: genetic diversity and relationships among strains of serotypes S. choleraesuis, S. derby, S. dublin, S. enteritidis, S. heidelberg, S. infantis, S. newport, and S. typhimurium. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 85:7753-7757.
3. Birnbaum, D., L. Herwaldt, D. E. Low, M. Noble, M. Pfaller, R. Sherertz, and A. W. Chow. 1994. Efficiency of Microbial Identification System for epidemiologic typing of coagulase-negative staphylococci. J. Clin. Microbiol. 32:2113-2119.
4. Drucker, D. B., and F. J. Veazey. 1977. Fatty acid fingerprints of Streptococcus mutans NCTC 10832 grown at various temperatures. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 33:221-226.
5. Hampton, M. D., E. J. Threlfall, J. A. Frost, L. R. Ward, and B. Rowe. 1995. Salmonella typhimurium DT 193: differentiation of an epidemic phage type by amibiogram, plasmid profile, plasmid fingerprint, and salmonella plasmid virulence (spv) gene probe. J. Appl. Bacteriol. 78:402-408.
6. Juneja, V. K., and P. M. Davidson. 1993. Influence of temperature on the fatty acid profile of Liberia monocytogenes. J. Rapid Methods Automat. Microbiol. 2:55-71.
7. Khakhria, R., D. Duck, and H. Liar. 1990. Extended phage-typing scheme for Escherichia coli O157:H7. Epidemiol. Infect. 105:511-520.
8. Knivett, V. A., and J. Cullen. 1965. Some factors affecting cyclopropane acid formation in Escherichia coli. Biochem. J. 96:771-776.
9. Madico, G., N. S. Akopyants, and D. E. Berg. 1995. Arbitrarily primed PCR DNA fingerprinting of Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains using templates from boiled cultures. J. Clin. Microbiol. 33:1534-1536.
10. Marr, A. G., and J. L. Ingraham. 1962. Effect of temperature on the composition of Catty acids in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 84:1260-1267.
11. Microbial ID Inc. 1993. Microbial Identification System operating manual version 4. Microbial ID Inc., Newark, Del.
12. Mukwaya, G. M., and D. F. Welch. 1989. Subgrouping of Pseudomonas cepacia by cellular fatty acid composition. J. Clin. Microbiol. 27:2640-2646.
13. Ostroff, S. M., P. I. Tarr, M. A. Neill, J. H. Lewis, N. Hargrett-Bean, and J. M. Kobayashi. 1989. Toxin genotypes and plasmid profiles as determinants of systemic sequelae in Escherichia O157:H7 infections. J. Infect. Dis. 160:994-998.
14. Poppe, C., K. A. McFadden, A. M. Brouwer, and W. Demczuk. 1993. Characterization of Salmonella enteritidis strains. Can. J. Vet. Res. 57:176-184.
15. Steele, M., A. M. Lammerding, W. B. McNab, L. J. Harris, J. J. Kolar, and J. Odumeru. 1995. Evaluation of an automated fatty acid analysis system for typing Listeria monocytogenes, p. 85. In Proceedings of the XII International Symposium on Problems of Listeriosis (ISOPOL), Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 2 to 6 October 1995.
16. Thong, K. L., Y. F. Ngeow, M. Altwegg, P. Navaratnam, and T. Pang. 1995. Molecular analysis of Salmonella enteritidis by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and ribotyping. J. Clin. Microbiol. 33:1070-1074.
17. Whittam, T. S., K. Wachsmuth, and R. A. Wilson. 1988. Genetic evidence of clonal descent of Escherichia coli O157:H7 associated with hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome. J. Infect. Dis. 158:1124-1133.