title: Comparison between Salmonella enterica Serotype Enteritidis Genotyping Methods and Phage Type.
abstract: A quantitative comparison between discriminatory indexes and concordance among multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), automated ribotyping, and phage typing has been performed, testing 238 Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis isolates not epidemiologically correlated. The results show that MLVA is the best choice, but each typing method provides a piece of information for establishing clonal relationships between the isolates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Ozzano dell'Emilia, Italy alessandra.decesare@unibo.it.
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: De Cesare
authors.affiliation: DuPont Nutrition & Health, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Keshav
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Krishnamani
authors.affiliation: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata, Putignano, Bari, Italy.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parisi
authors.affiliation: OIE/National Reference Laboratory for Salmonella-Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy.
authors.forename: Antonia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ricci
authors.affiliation: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Ida
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Luzzi
authors.affiliation: OIE/National Reference Laboratory for Salmonella-Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Barco
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Ozzano dell'Emilia, Italy.
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lucchi
authors.affiliation: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Puglia e della Basilicata, Putignano, Bari, Italy.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miccolupo
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Ozzano dell'Emilia, Italy.
authors.forename: Gerardo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Manfreda
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001434:Bacteriophage Typing / Q000379:methods*; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D060005:Genotyping Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats; D021521:Ribotyping; D012477:Salmonella enteritidis / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification