Author:
Legakis N J,Aliferopoulou M,Papavassiliou J,Papapetropoulou M
Abstract
Ninety-eight hospital strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from six different hospitals in Athens were serotyped by a slide agglutination test with unabsorbed commercial antisera. Serotypes O6, O11, O12, and "pool E" strains (strains that agglutinated only in pool E, which contained antisera against O2, O5, O15, and O16 antigens, but did not agglutinate in the individual antisera) predominated, accounting for more than 62% of all isolates tested. In respect to serotypes, (i) there was no apparent correlation with hospital of origin, (ii) most strains of serotypes O6 and O11 were sensitive to gentamicin and carbenicillin (iii) most strains of pool E were from urine and were resistant to these drugs, (iv) all 9 strains of serotype O12 tested were resistant to carbenicillin and all 5 strains tested hydrolyzed this drug, and (v) 24 of 25 strains of pool E were resistant to carbenicillin but only 2 of 17 strains hydrolyzed it.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
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