Abstract
The purpose of our study was to evaluate the inclusion of seven experimental phages into the international phage set for subtyping Listeria monocytogenes. The seven additional phages included the broad-host-range virulent Myoviridae phage A511 (M. J. Loessner, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 57:1912-1918, 1991), three temperate phages from the Danish subsystem for typing serotype 1/2 strains (12682, 6223, and 5775) (P. Gerner-Smidt, V.T. Rosdahl, and W. Frederiksen, APMIS 101:160-167, 1993), and three temperate phages isolated by this laboratory in France (9425, 1313, and 197). A panel of 395 Listeria monocytogenes isolates (including 180 that were non-phage typeable by the international set) were used in the study for a comparison of the lytic spectra of the various bacteriophages. These results showed that the inclusion of five of the experimental phages contributed greatly to the overall typeability and discriminatory power of the system, especially for strains within serogroup 1/2.
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