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. 1993 Oct;31(10):2724–2728. doi: 10.1128/jcm.31.10.2724-2728.1993

DNA fingerprinting of Streptococcus pneumoniae strains by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.

J C Lefevre 1, G Faucon 1, A M Sicard 1, A M Gasc 1
PMCID: PMC265993  PMID: 8253973

Abstract

Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of genomic DNA was carried out on Streptococcus pneumoniae strains to determine its value in the epidemiological survey of pneumococcal infections. Twenty-one clinical strains were chosen to cover a broad range of diversity according to geographic location, penicillin susceptibility, serotype, and multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE) pattern. The restriction endonucleases ApaI and SmaI were used to digest intact chromosomes, and the fragments were resolved by field inversion gel electrophoresis (FIGE). Each digest produced 10 to 19 fragments for comparison between strains. All the strains, including strains of the same serotype and strains with the same MLEE profile, had different FIGE patterns. In some cases, the restriction patterns differed by only a few fragment bands, and two isolates differed only in the location of a single DNA fragment. The polymorphism obtained with FIGE was greater than those obtained with serotyping and MLEE analysis. The stability of the FIGE profiles was established by testing of two independent clones derived from pneumococcus strain R36A. These results indicated that pulsed-field gel electrophoresis should be an effective tool for the typing of S. pneumoniae strains, capable of subdividing serotypes or MLEE types and of tracing the origin of pneumococcal strains.

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