Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is one of the most common organisms causing neonatal sepsis as well as serious infections in adults. Serotyping the organism is important in studying the epidemiology of the disease as well as deciding a course of treatment. There are several methods available for serotyping. Most of them need high-titered sera and are not quantitative. We are reporting a new inhibit...

aim : we intended to find out the diversity of epec isolates among asymptomatic or diarrheal children in iran using ribotyping. background : enteropathogenic escherichia coli (epec) is responsible for gastroenteritis especially in young children. patients and methods : a total of 39 epec collected strains were serotyped and the presence of virulence genes as well as eaf plasmid among the strain...

background: campylobacter spp. are the common pathogens that infect human beings via food. these bacteria are vibrio and have been implicated in abortion. serotyping is the best way for typing with penner scheme. c. jejuni and c. coli have 65 serotypes. c. coli is common in birds and dogs. due to high rate of prevalence of campylobacter in red-meat, chicken-meat and egg-shell, a suitable method...

An indirect hemagglutination test (IHA) and a coagglutination test (CA) were evaluated using saline, boiled, and autoclaved extracts for serotyping Haemophilus parasuis. CA showed several cross-reactions, whereas IHA gave rise to specific reactions, with minor exceptions. IHA was further compared with the immunodiffusion test (the "gold standard") for the serotyping of 67 field isolates. As a c...

Serotyping is a universally accepted subtyping method for Listeria monocytogenes. Identification of the strain serotype permits differentiation between important food-borne strains (1/2a, 1/2b, and 4b) and provides a "gold standard" for comparing isolates analyzed in different labs and with different techniques. Although an efficient enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay serotyping protocol was des...

We have developed and characterized a rapid semiautomated pneumococcal serotyping system incorporating a pneumococcal lysate preparation protocol and a multiplex serotyping assay. The lysate preparation incorporates a bile solubility test to confirm pneumococcal identification that also enhances assay specificity. The multiplex serotyping assay consists of 24 assays specific for 36 serotypes: s...

salmonella infections are the second leading cause of zoonotic bacterial foodborne illness. main source of infection in human is contaminated food products. the aim of this study was sub typing isolates of salmonella entericaobtained during our previous study bypulsed field gel electrophoresis (pfge) technique. all 46 salmonella isolates were serotyped and then subjected to pfge. total isolates...

Identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the nasopharynx is critical for an understanding of transmission, estimates of vaccine efficacy, and possible replacement disease. Conventional nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) culture and serotyping (the WHO protocol) is likely to underestimate multiple-serotype carriage. We compared the WHO protocol with methods aimed at improving cocolonization detectio...