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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 05 1995, 1136-1140, Vol 33, No. 5
Copyright © 1995 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Differentiation of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli strains by using restriction endonuclease DNA profiles and DNA fragment polymorphisms

V Korolik, L Moorthy and PJ Coloe
Department of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Victoria, Australia.

The chromosomal DNA fragment patterns from a total of 169 Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli isolates from poultry and humans were analyzed by using DNA restriction endonucleases ClaI and EcoRV. The DNA restriction patterns produced by ClaI and EcoRV consisted of unique DNA fragments of 9 to 9.5 kb and 3.5 kb generated with ClaI and a single unique fragment of 3.0 kb produced by EcoRV. These patterns were obtained with all strains of C. jejuni tested. The DNA restriction patterns were further examined by Southern blot analysis with a previously constructed DNA probe, pMO2005, which is also able to distinguish between C. jejuni and C. coli spp. (5). Two types of patterns were produced by hybridization with the ClaI-cleaved DNA of C. jejuni strains, one of a single 18.5-kb genomic fragment and the other of 14.5- and 4.0-kb fragments. This indicated the presence of an extra ClaI site in this genomic fragment in the strains with the duplex pattern. The Southern blot analysis of 169 C. jejuni and C. coli isolates from poultry and from humans with DNA probe pMO2005 demonstrated that 78% of C. jejuni strains isolated from chickens hybridized with DNA probe pMO2005 with a characteristic 14.5- and 4.0- kb banding pattern and 22% hybridized with a single 18.5-kb fragment, whereas 71% of human isolates hybridized with the single 18.5-kb fragment and only 29% hybridized with 14.5- and 4.0-kb fragments. These findings suggest that only a small proportion of C. jejuni strains that colonize chickens may cause disease in humans.

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