title: [The importance of serotyping Plesiomonas shigelloides].
abstract: The author presents an account of serovars of 432 strains of Plesiomonas shigelloides from various countries and sources; in addition to strains from man and animals also environmental strains. The most frequent serovars are O17 with three H antigens (H2, H11, H34) except for immobile strains, also O32:H4 and non-motile strains, O2:H1a1c and O44:H8. The other serovars did not reach the number of 10 strains, some serovars were found only one strain of each. Serovar O18:H2 was isolated in the course of 30 years only from cats and lynx and once from a pond in the FRG. As regards the distribution of different serovars, e.g. O68:H2 was found only in one district, while strains of the serogroup O17 come from various countries in the world. Between findings of the same serovar sometimes a 20-30-year interval elapses.
authors.affiliation: Státní zdravotní ústav, Praha.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Aldová
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D016981:Plesiomonas / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012703:Serotyping; D014871:Water Microbiology
vernacular_title: Význam sérotypizace Plesiomonas shigelloides.