[Methodological aspects of Klebsiella pneumoniae serotyping and its use for characterization of clinical isolates].
The method for serological typing of Klebsiella pneumoniae making use of Russian commercial K-sera manufactured by the Ilya Metchnikoff firm has been used to characterize 85 strains isolated from newborns at an obstetrical hospital and department of newborn diseases and from children with acute enteric infections hospitalized at the hospital for infectious diseases. The authors emphasize that their methods of serotyping are to be accurately performed, specifically, the selection of capsular forms and identification of serovars in strains which can be agglutinated by several sera. Serovars were identified by the proposed serotyping method in 89.4% of the studied strains. A wide spectrum of K-serovars typical of this or that hospital has been defined for each institution. K. pneumoniae K2 predominated in the obstetrical hospital, K. pneumoniae K24 and K25 prevailed in department for newborn diseases, and the K14 variant in the infectious diseases hospital.
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D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D006801:Humans; D007710:Klebsiella Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D007711:Klebsiella pneumoniae / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification