Journal article
Comparison of ribotyping, arbitrarily primed PCR, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for molecular typing of Listeria monocytogenes
Abstract
Fifty-one clinical isolates of Listeria monocytogenes (15 isolates from two outbreaks and 36 epidemiologically unrelated isolates) were typed by conventional serotyping, ribotyping (RT), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR). Serotyping was unable to distinguish between related and unrelated strains of L. monocytogenes. Each of the three molecular methods showed excellent typeability and reproducibility. …
Authors
Louie M; Jayaratne P; Luchsinger I; Devenish J; Yao J; Schlech W; Simor A
Journal
Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 15–19
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Publication Date
January 1996
DOI
10.1128/jcm.34.1.15-19.1996
ISSN
0095-1137