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Volume 14 (2): 208-11, 2010. Redacted 2017.


Genomic DNA pulsed field gel electrophoresis profiles of Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:3/biotype 4

isolated from pigs and humans in Greece.

 

Anastassios Ioannidis BSc, MD, PhD1, Chryssoula Nicolaou MD, PhD 2, Nektaria Kechagia MD, PhD 3 and Stylianos Chatzipanagiotou MD, PhD 2,*

 

1University of Peloponnese, Faculty of Human Movement and Quality of Life Sciences, Department of Nursing, Sparta., 2Athens Medical School, Aeginition Hospital, Department of Biopathology and Clinical Microbiology, and 3Athens Medical School, Department of Medical Microbiology, Athens, Greece

 

ABSTRACT

 

Ioannidis A, Nicolaou C, Kechagia N, Chatzipanagiotou S, Genomic DNA Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis profiles of Yersinia enterocolitica Serotype O:3/Biotype 4 Isolated from Pigs and Humans in Greece. Onl J Vet Res., 14 (2): 208-11, 2010. Pig strains (116) of Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:3/biotype 4 were isolated from slaughterhouses in Greece and tested for XbaI restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) profiles by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). The genetic profiles from pigs were compared to those from human clinical isolates of the same bio-serogroup. PFGE analysis revealed 2 different genetic profiles strain A1 (99.14%) and strain A2 (0.86%). A1 was similar to the unique genetic profile described in human clinical isolates previously. As this profile was derived exclusively from the pigs, this result supports the assumption that pigs seem to be the main reservoir of human pathogenic yersiniae.

 

Keywords: Yersinia enterocolitica; pigs; human; RFLP; PFGE.

 


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