title: Typing Listeria monocytogenes by random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting.
abstract: Twenty epidemiologically unrelated Listeria monocytogenes strains isolated from different animals, locations and on different dates in Japan were classified into 18 types by the random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting technique with four primers. Further, seven epidemiologically related L. monocytogenes strains isolated from raw milk and a bulk tank on a dairy farm represented the same RAPD type suggesting that they were all of the same origin. Therefore, RAPD-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis, which is rapid, simple and inexpensive to perform, can be used in surveys as a convenient epidemiological technique.
authors.affiliation: Division of Food Hygiene, Nagano Research Institute for Health and Pollution, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takeuchi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirai
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D002417:Cattle; D002645:Chickens; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods; D003670:Deer; D005260:Female; D005766:Gastrointestinal Contents / Q000382:microbiology; D007564:Japan; D008089:Listeria monocytogenes / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D008460:Meat / Q000382:microbiology*; D008892:Milk / Q000382:microbiology*; D011200:Poultry; D019105:Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique; D013552:Swine