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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 04 1996, 1007-1010, Vol 34, No. 4
Copyright © 1996 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Serotyping and esterase typing for analysis of Listeria monocytogenes populations recovered from foodstuffs and from human patients with listeriosis in Belgium

P Gilot, A Genicot and P Andre
Belgian National Reference Centre for Listeriosis, Department of Microbiology, Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Brussels, Belgium.

Listeria monocytogenes strains isolated in Belgium from different foodstuffs and in sporadic cases of human listeriosis were analyzed. The distribution of serovars differed in each of these populations. The bacteria isolated from cheeses and from human patients with listeriosis were further studied by esterase typing. The twenty esterase patterns defined were not equally distributed in these two populations. The secretion of the virulence determinant phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C and the pathogenicity level of strains in immunocompromised mice could not explain the unequal distribution of esterase types. The discrimination index of esterase typing (DI = 0.868) was compared with that of serotyping (DI = 0.666) and with that of the two combined methods (DI = 0.899).


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