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Relationship of K1 Antigen to Biotype in Clinical Isolates of Escherichia Coli

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Journal J Clin Microbiol
Specialty Microbiology
Date 1977 Aug 1
PMID 330559
Citations 7
Authors
R L Myerowitz
A C Albers
R B Yee
F ORSKOV
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Abstract

Two hundred and ninety-four isolates of Escherichia coli, including 105 from blood cultures, 94 from stools of hospital inpatients, and 96 from rectal cultures of healthy young adults, were biotyped by using the API-20E system and tested for the presence of K1 antigen. The overall frequency of K1 strains was 14.2% and was similar among the three sources. Forty-eight biotypes were observed, but two-thirds of all isolates, including two-thirds of the K1 strains, belonged to only five biotypes. Among the five commonest biotypes, the distribution of K1 strains was nonrandom, since 23 of the 27 K1 strains belonged to only two biotypes. Analysis of the O and H antigens of K1 strains indicated that this correlation of biotype with K1 antigen was due to a restricted number of serovars ("clones") that were repeatedly isolated from the population studied. These serovas included O18:K1:H7, O1:121:H6 and O16:K1:H6. Although a statistically significant correlation between biotype and K1 antigen was observed, the correlation was not sufficiently great to alow biotyping to be of significant predictive value as a marker for the K1 antigen.

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