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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2000, p. 5273-5281, Vol. 66, No. 12
0099-2240/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Suitability of PCR Fingerprinting, Infrequent-Restriction-Site PCR, and Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis, Combined with Computerized Gel Analysis, in Library Typing of Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis

Javier Garaizar,1,* Nuria López-Molina,1 Idoia Laconcha,1 Dorte Lau Baggesen,2 Aitor Rementeria,1 Ana Vivanco,1 Ana Audicana,3 and Ildefonso Perales3

Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology, Basque Country University, 01080 Vitoria-Gasteiz,1 and Laboratory of Microbiology, Public Health Laboratory, Basque Government, 48010 Bilbao,3 Spain, and Danish Veterinary Laboratory, Copenhagen V, Denmark2

Received 25 May 2000/Accepted 3 October 2000

Strains of Salmonella enterica (n = 212) of different serovars and phage types were used to establish a library typing computerized system for serovar Enteritidis on the basis of PCR fingerprinting, infrequent-restriction-site PCR (IRS-PCR), or pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). The rate of PCR fingerprinting interassay and intercenter reproducibility was low and was only increased when DNA samples were extracted at the same time and amplified with the same reaction mixtures. Reproducibility of IRS-PCR technique reached 100%, but discrimination was low (D = 0.52). The PFGE procedure showed an intercenter reproducibility value of 93.3%. The high reproducibility of PFGE combined with the previously determined high discrimination directed its use for library typing. The use of PFGE with enzymes XbaI, BlnI, and SpeI for library typing of serovar Enteritidis was assessed with GelCompar 4.0 software. Three computer libraries of PFGE DNA profiles were constructed, and their ability to recognize new DNA profiles was analyzed. The results obtained pointed out that the combination of PFGE with computerized analysis could be suitable in long-term epidemiological comparison and surveillance of Salmonella serovar Enteritidis, specially if the prevalence of genetic events that could be responsible for changes in PFGE profiles in this serovar was low.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Immunology, Microbiology, and Parasitology, Basque Country University, Apdo. 450, 01080 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Phone: 34 945 013912. Fax: 34 945 130756. E-mail: oipgacaj{at}vc.ehu.es.


Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2000, p. 5273-5281, Vol. 66, No. 12
0099-2240/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.



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