%0 Journal Article %A Young, Viola M. %A Moody, Marcia R. %A Morris, Maureen J. %T Phase variation in the genus Serratia %D 1980 %J Journal of Medical Microbiology, %V 13 %N 2 %P 341-343 %@ 1473-5644 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00222615-13-2-341 %I Microbiology Society, %X SUMMARY During an investigation of the serotypes of Serratia marcescens present in a cancer centre, it was found that 8-7% of 241 strains had more than one H antigen. There were 19 diphasic and two triphasic strains. Antigen H1 was a component of the phases in approximately half of the strains with multiple phases. This is the first report of such phases in the genus Serratia. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/00222615-13-2-341