Volume 8, Number 4—April 2002
Dispatch
Multiply Resistant (MR) Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhimurium DT 12 and DT 120: A Case of MR DT 104 in Disguise?
Andrew J. Lawson
, Miatta U. Dassama, Linda R. Ward, and E. John Threlfall
, Miatta U. Dassama, Linda R. Ward, and E. John ThrelfallTable
Salmonella enteric serotype Typhimurium phage typing scheme, selected phage reactions
| Phage type | Selected routine phages |
Additional phages |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 20 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 32 | 35 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 18 | |
| 104 | -/± | - | - | CL | CL | - | - | - | - | CL | +/± | +/± | -/± | - | -/± | +/± | - | - | - | OL | - |
| 104L | -/± | - | - | ++ | ++ | - | - | - | - | +/SCL | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | OL | - |
| 12 | - | - | - | CL | CL | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | SCL | SCL | SCL | OL | - |
| 12L | -/± | - | - | CL | CL | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | OL | - |
| 120 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | CL | - | - | - | - | - | - | red | red | red | OL | - |
L = light or reduced reaction with typing phages; CL = clear lysis; OL = opaque lysis; SCL = semi-confluent lysis; red = reduced zone; ±, +, ++ = increasing numbers of discrete plaques, - = no reaction.
