title: Bacteriophage typing of Staphylococcus hyicus subsp hyicus isolated from pigs.
abstract: Four phages were isolated and used for typing Staphylococcus hyicus subsp hyicus isolated from pigs with or without exudative epidermatitis (EE) in Japan. Sixty-four (85.3%) of the 75 isolates examined were typeable at either routine test dilution (RTD) or 100 X RTD. Two or more kinds of phage patterns were present in the isolates from each pig with EE. All isolates from healthy pigs showed a single-phage pattern. Fourteen (32.6%) of 43 isolates and 7 (87.5%) of 8 isolates from pigs with EE in Belgium and Czechoslovakia, respectively, were typeable with the 4 phages. None of 180 isolates of S aureus, 7 (6.4%) of 110 isolates of S intermedius, and 2 (2.3%) of 86 isolates of S epidermidis were typeable.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn / Q000382:microbiology; D001434:Bacteriophage Typing / Q000379:methods*; D001530:Belgium; D004818:Epidermitis, Exudative, of Swine / Q000382:microbiology*; D007564:Japan; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013204:Staphylococcus Phages; D013552:Swine / Q000382:microbiology*