Bacteriocin typing of environmental Klebsiella isolates.
A total of 88 environmental Klebsiella pneumoniae and K. oxytoca isolates were typed according to their bacteriocin susceptibility patterns. Bacteriocin typing was performed by a modification of the scrape-and-point method, using a set of 8 producer strains. This method proved to be very applicable to environmental strains of both species; all but one strain could be typed. Twenty-one different patterns were observed. Type 1-3456-8 was most common in both species. In contrast to K. pneumoniae, more than half of the K. oxytoca strains fell into only two bacteriocin susceptibility patterns. Bacteriocin types 1 and 3 showed a very broad spectrum, more than 95% of the isolates being sensitive to one of these bacteriocins.
Podschun
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Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Virologie, Universität Kiel.
Ullmann
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D001430:Bacteriocins / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007709:Klebsiella / Q000145:classification* / Q000187:drug effects; D007711:Klebsiella pneumoniae / Q000145:classification* / Q000187:drug effects; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D012722:Sewage
D001430:Bacteriocins; D012722:Sewage