The use of a new phage set for typing poultry strains of Staphylococcus aureus obtained from seven countries |
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| Authors: | J K Thompson J T Patterson P A Gibbs |
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| Institution: | 1. Agricultural and Food Bacteriology Research Division, Department of Agriculture , Northern Ireland;2. Agricultural and Food Bacteriology Research Division, Department of Agriculture , Northern Ireland;3. The Queen's University , Newforge Lane, Belfast, BT9 5PX, Northern Ireland;4. The British Food Manufacturing Research Association , Randalls Road, Leather‐head, Surrey, KT22 7RY, England |
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| Abstract: | 1. Eighty per cent of poultry strains of Staphylococcus aureus tested from French, Belgian, English, West German, Japanese and Argentinian sources were typable using a set of typing phages isolated in this laboratory. Strains from Bulgaria, however, with few exceptions were not typable with this phage set. 2. Strains isolated from lesions generally resembled those from apparently healthy poultry. 3. The existence of two distinct Staph. aureus biotypes on poultry was confirmed by isolates from six of the countries; one of these biotypes closely resembled Staph. aureus variety gallinae as described by Witte et al. (1977). |
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