Volume 9, Number 10—October 2003
Research
Characterization of Waterborne Outbreak–associated Campylobacter jejuni, Walkerton, Ontario
Clifford G. Clark*
, Lawrence Price*, Rafiq Ahmed*, David L. Woodward*, Pasquale L. Melito*, Frank G. Rodgers*, Frances B. Jamieson†, Bruce Ciebin†, Aimin Li†, and Andrea Ellis‡
, Lawrence Price*, Rafiq Ahmed*, David L. Woodward*, Pasquale L. Melito*, Frank G. Rodgers*, Frances B. Jamieson†, Bruce Ciebin†, Aimin Li†, and Andrea Ellis‡
Table 2
Characteristics of Campylobacter jejuni strains from human patientsa
| Species | Biotypea | HS type | Fla-RFLP type | PFGE type using SmaI | PFGE type using KpnI | No. strains | Outbreak type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campylobacter jejuni |
II |
O:2 |
1 |
CASAI.0001 |
CAKNI.0001 |
13 |
1 |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:2 |
1 |
CASAI.0001 |
CAKNI.0001 |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:2 |
1 |
CASAI.0002 |
CAKNI.0002 |
8 |
1 |
| C. jejuni |
II |
UTa |
1 |
CASAI.0002 |
CAKNI.0002 |
1 |
1 |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:2 |
1 |
CASAI.0002 |
CAKNI.0002 |
2 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:2 |
1 |
CASAI.0002 |
CAKNI.0036 |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:2 |
1 |
CASAI.0002 |
CAKNI.0003 |
1 |
1 |
| C. jejuni |
hipp.neg.a |
O:2 |
1 |
CASAI.0002 |
CAKNI.0003 |
1 |
1 |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O :2 |
1 |
CASAI.0004 |
CAKN1.0001 |
2 |
1 |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:2 |
1 |
CASAI.0011 |
CAKNI.0001 |
1 |
1 |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:2 |
1 |
NDa |
ND |
14 |
1 |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:2 |
ND |
ND |
ND |
20 |
1 |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:2 |
ND |
ND |
ND |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:2 |
ND |
ND |
ND |
28 |
1 |
| C. jejuni |
II |
UT |
ND |
ND |
ND |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
hipp. neg. |
O:2 |
34 |
CASAI.0003 |
CAKNI.0003 |
9 |
2 |
| C. jejuni |
hipp. neg. |
O:2 |
34 |
CASAI.0003 |
CAKNI.0003 |
1 |
2 |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O1,44 |
2 |
CASAI.0012 |
CAKNI.0012 |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
I |
O:3 |
ND |
ND |
ND |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:4 complex |
93 |
ND |
ND |
2 |
Not defined |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:4 complex |
93 |
ND |
ND |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:4 complex |
ND |
ND |
ND |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:4 complex |
90 |
CASAI.0030 |
CAKNI.0024 |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
I |
O:4 complex |
94 |
ND |
ND |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:4 complex |
90 |
ND |
ND |
1 |
Not defined |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:17 complex |
1 |
ND |
ND |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
I |
O:11 |
91 |
CASAI.0029 |
CAKNI.0026 |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
III |
O:17 complex |
5 |
ND |
ND |
1 |
Not defined |
| C. jejuni |
I |
O:17 complex |
99 |
ND |
ND |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
III |
O:21 |
5 |
ND |
ND |
1 |
Not defined |
| C. jejuni |
IV |
O:21 |
5 |
ND |
ND |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:17 complex |
4 |
ND |
ND |
1 |
Not defined |
| C. jejuni |
III |
O:17 complex |
5 |
ND |
ND |
1 |
Not defined |
| C. jejuni |
III |
O:17 complex |
5 |
ND |
ND |
1 |
NER |
| C. coli |
I (C. coli) |
O:34 |
36 |
CASAI.0020 |
CAKNI.0025 |
1 |
NER |
| C. jejuni |
II |
O:35 |
92 |
ND |
ND |
1 |
NER |
| C. coli | I | O:47 | 82 | CASAI.0010 | CAKNI.0004 | 1 | NER |
aHS, heat-stable; RFLP, restriction fragment length polymorphism; PFGE, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis; NER, not epidemiologically related to the outbreak; UT, untypeable; hipp. neg., lack of hippurate hydrolysis in C. jejuni strains; ND, not determined
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