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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 05 1995, 1080-1083, Vol 33, No. 5
Copyright © 1995 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Molecular epidemiology of Corynebacterium diphtheriae from northwestern Russia and surrounding countries studied by using ribotyping and pulsed- field gel electrophoresis

A De Zoysa, A Efstratiou, RC George, M Jahkola, J Vuopio-Varkila, S Deshevoi, G Tseneva and Y Rikushin
Respiratory and Systemic Infection Laboratory, Central Public Health Laboratory, London, United Kingdom.

A selection of 100 Corynebacterium diphtheriae isolates from asymptomatic carriers and clinical cases from five regions in northwestern Russia were examined. Six additional isolates from patients in Finland and Estonia with epidemiological links to Russia were also examined. All isolates were characterized by biotyping, toxigenicity testing, ribotyping, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Hybridization of genomic DNA digested with BstEII revealed five ribotype patterns among the biotype gravis isolates (G1 through G5) and two patterns among the biotype mitis isolates (M1 and M2). PFGE using SfiI was not able to distinguish between ribotypes G1, G2, and G4. The predominant ribotype pattern, G1, found in cases of disease in all the areas studied, appears to be disseminating, in view of the isolates received from imported cases in Finland and Estonia. Among the 106 isolates examined, 68 produced pattern G1 and 24 produced pattern M1. Most of the M1 isolates were from the Leningrad Oblast region. Distinct ribotypes such as G2, G3, G4, G5, and M2 could represent endemic disease.


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