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Volume 62, Issue 5

Development of an ERIC sequence typing scheme for , an emerging pathogen associated with community-acquired gastroenteritis and travellers’ diarrhoea No Access

Abstract

is a potential emerging pathogen, associated with community-acquired diarrhoea. For epidemiological purposes, different molecular typing methods, such as pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multi-locus sequence typing, have been developed for this pathogen. However, these methods require specialized equipment and costly reagents. More importantly, they are labour-intensive and time-consuming, which is not really suitable for foodborne disease outbreak investigations. In this study, we developed a rapid and reliable method using 22-mer primers specific for the enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequence (ERIC). PFGE was used for comparison, to evaluate this method. A total of 81 isolates of were examined: 79 isolates recovered from food of diverse origins and two strains derived from patients with -associated infection. Typing patterns and clustering analysis indicated that the 81 isolates were grouped into 21 and 13 genotypes by ERIC-PCR and PFGE, respectively. ERIC-PCR was found as reproducible as PFGE. A high percentage (70.4 %) of isolates yielded distinguishable ERIC-PCR patterns, which were concordant with the results from PFGE. These results suggest that ERIC-PCR is valuable for use in the epidemiological investigation of .

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2013-05-01
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Development of an ERIC sequence typing scheme for Laribacter hongkongensis, an emerging pathogen associated with community-acquired gastroenteritis and travellers’ diarrhoea
J. Med. Microbiol. 62, 701 (2013); https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.049858-0
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