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Animal Strains of Group G Streptococci and their Serological Typinǵ
Abstract
SUMMARY: A brief review of group G streptococci and their typing is given with particular reference to canine strains. Two of the Australian type strains of Simmons & Keogh (1940) were found to be in the group phase and useless for comparative purposes. Four types Kennett, Maxie, Airedale and R 51/755 were clearly defined in addition to the Australian types Harrison and Cuthell by reciprocal absorption tests using slide agglutination. Fifty-four other strains of which 35 were of animal and 19 of human origin were examined for type. Of the 38 strains from animal sources, 33 belonged to one of the two types Kennett or Maxie, strains of which came exclusively from animal sources. Six of the human strains and one of the animal ones were untyped.
Type R 51/755 which had been found previously by Maxted (1949) to possess the M28 antigen owed its type-specificity entirely to this antigen and this was not found to be present in any of the other types.
The substances responsible for type-specificity in types Kennett, Maxie, and Airedale differed from those of types Harrison and Cuthell and like that of type R 51/755 appeared to be protein in nature. The type-specific substances of types Airedale and Maxie had exactly the same characters as the M28 antigen in being sensitive to peptic but resistant to tryptic digestion. The protein antigen of type Kennett differed from the other three protein type-specific substances in showing only moderate resistance to tryptic digestion.
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© Society for Gerenal Microbiology, 1957