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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2006, p. 3640-3646, Vol. 44, No. 10
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00940-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Identification of Clinical Isolates of Indole-Positive and Indole-Negative Klebsiella spp.{triangledown}

Maria Silvana Alves,1,2 Rubens Clayton da Silva Dias,2 Angela Christina Dias de Castro,2 Lee W. Riley,3 and Beatriz Meurer Moreira2*

Faculdade de Farmácia e Bioquímica, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais,1 Instituto de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,2 School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California3

Received 5 May 2006/ Returned for modification 3 July 2006/ Accepted 14 August 2006

Biochemical methods employed to classify bacterial species have limitations and may have contributed to the taxonomic complexity recently reported for the genus Klebsiella. The objective of the present study was to apply a simple biochemical test panel to classify a collection of human Klebsiella isolates. We found that with only three additional tests, it is possible to place most isolates in a defined species. Analysis of a 512-bp sequence of the rpoB gene was used as the reference. A total of 16 conventional and 4 supplementary tests were used to evaluate 122 recent isolates identified as Klebsiella from 120 patients, isolated at the clinical laboratory of a university hospital in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Of these, 102 (84%) isolates were identified as Klebsiella pneumoniae or Klebsiella variicola, 19 (15%) as Klebsiella oxytoca, and 1 (1%) as Raoultella planticola. Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus-PCR typing revealed a diversity of genotypes. rpoB gene sequencing confirmed the phenotypic identification and detected five K. variicola isolates among the K. pneumoniae/K. variicola group. Three additional tests that include growth at 10°C and histamine and D-melezitose assimilation should be considered essential tests for the typing of Klebsiella isolates.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Instituto de Microbiologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Bloco I, Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-590, Brazil. Phone: 55-21-25626745. Fax: 55-21-22608344. E-mail: bmeurer{at}micro.ufrj.br.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 23 August 2006.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2006, p. 3640-3646, Vol. 44, No. 10
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.00940-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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