Rapid identification of Salmonella typhimurium, S. enteritidis and S. virchow isolates by Polymerase Chain Reaction based fingerprinting methods

Authors

  • Antonio Bennasar Department of Biology, Microbiology, University of the Balearic Islands, and Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies (CSIC–UIB), Spain; and Bereich Mikrobiologie, Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung mbH, Braunschweig, Germany
  • Gloria de Luna Ministry of Health and Social Security, Autonomous Government of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • Bartomeu Cabrer Ministry of Health and Social Security, Autonomous Government of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • Jorge Lalucat Department of Biology, Microbiology, University of the Balearic Islands, and Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies (CSIC–UIB), Spain

Keywords:

Salmonella, 16S–23S rDNA spacer region, enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC), molecular typing, repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP) sequences

Abstract

In this study we used and evaluated three rapid molecular typing methods for the identification of three frequent, clinically significant Salmonella serovars on the basis of the ease, simplicity and reproducibility of the chosen methods. We determined the genetic diversity among several isolates of Salmonella enteritidis, S. typhimurium and S. virchow, and compared them with other enterobacteria by using the repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP) sequences, the enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) sequences, and the 16S–23S rDNA intergenic spacer region (ITS1). The objective was to evaluate their potential application to discriminate among members of the species Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica using the genetic diversity of the group found by genomic fingerprinting. The three different serovars of Salmonella studied gave reproducible and distinguishable profiles using whichever of the above mentioned polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods assayed. The conserved patterns in each serovar allowed for easy differentiation from other serovars of Salmonella.

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2010-03-15

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