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. 1993 Sep;59(9):2830–2836. doi: 10.1128/aem.59.9.2830-2836.1993

Plasmid and serological differences between Edwardsiella ictaluri strains.

C J Lobb 1, S H Ghaffari 1, J R Hayman 1, D T Thompson 1
PMCID: PMC182373  PMID: 7692817

Abstract

Several studies have shown that isolates of Edwardsiella ictaluri obtained from infected channel catfish in the southeastern United States harbor two cryptic plasmids, designated pCL1 (5.7 kb) and pCL2 (4.9 kb). These isolates appear to be serologically homogeneous. To extend these studies, we focused our analyses on two isolates of nonictalurid origin. Plasmid analyses of a danio isolate showed that it harbored plasmids which were similar if not identical to pCL1 and pCL2. This strain was also serologically indistinguishable from those isolated from channel catfish. In contrast, a green knife fish (GNF) isolate harbored four plasmids with relative mobilities of 6.0, 5.7, 4.1, and 3.1 kb. Southern blot analyses indicated that only the 5.7- and 4.1-kb plasmids strongly hybridized under high-stringency conditions to probes specific for pCL1 and pCL2, respectively. The GNF isolate showed minimal reactivity when reacted with polyclonal antiserum prepared against a channel catfish isolate. However, polyclonal antiserum to the GNF isolate strongly reacted with the GNF isolate in both surface fluorescence and agglutination reactions. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analyses of cell lysates showed that the protein banding patterns of the strains compared were similar. However, Western blots of proteinase K-digested cell extracts showed that O antigen of the GNF isolate was antigenically distinct from the O antigen of the other isolates. These studies indicate that there are different serotypes of E. ictaluri and suggest that plasmid and serological analyses of future isolates of E. ictaluri can be used to determine whether structurally distinct strains are emerging in major channel catfish aquaculture areas.

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