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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2005, p. 4979-4985, Vol. 71, No. 9
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0 doi:10.1128/AEM.71.9.4979-4985.2005
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RIKILT Institute of Food Safety, 6700 AE Wageningen,1 Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Agrotechnology and Food Sciences Group, Wageningen University, 6700 EV Wageningen, The Netherlands2
Received 20 August 2004/ Accepted 23 March 2005
Genomic subtractive hybridization was performed between Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2 and DT104 to search for novel Salmonella serovar Typhimurium DT104-specific sequences. The subtraction resulted mainly in the isolation of DNA fragments with sequence similarity to phages. Two fragments identified were associated with possible virulence factors. One fragment was identical to irsA of Salmonella serovar Typhimurium ATCC 14028, which is suggested to be involved in macrophage survival. The other fragment was homologous to HldD, an Escherichia coli O157:H7 lipopolysaccharide assembly-related protein. Five selected DNA fragmentsirsA, the HldD homologue, and three fragments with sequence similarity to prophageswere tested for their presence in 17 Salmonella serovar Typhimurium DT104 isolates and 27 non-DT104 isolates by PCR. All five selected DNA fragments were Salmonella serovar Typhimurium DT104 specific among the serovar Typhimurium isolates tested. These DNA fragments can be useful for better detection and typing of Salmonella serovar Typhimurium DT104.
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