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. 1983 Mar;17(3):529–538. doi: 10.1128/jcm.17.3.529-538.1983

Serogroups of Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli, and Campylobacter fetus defined by direct immunofluorescence.

G A Hébert, D G Hollis, R E Weaver, A G Steigerwalt, R M McKinney, D J Brenner
PMCID: PMC272680  PMID: 6341405

Abstract

Rabbits were inoculated with whole, formalinized Campylobacter jejuni, C. coli, and C. fetus cells; the C. jejuni and C. coli immunogens were identified by their DNA relatedness at the species level to the type strains of C. jejuni or C. coli. The designation C. coli was not used among the other C. jejuni strains; they were classified as hippurate-positive or hippurate-negative C. jejuni. Immunoglobulin G was isolated from the antisera and labeled with fluorescein isothiocyanate. These conjugates defined 10 serogroups of C. jejuni, 2 serogroups of C. coli, and 2 serogroups of C. fetus. Of the 316 strains of C. jejuni tested, 258 (82%) were groupable; 173 were single-serogroup strains, and 85 were multiple-serogroup strains. Of the 226 strains in C. jejuni serogroups, 223 (98.7%) were hippurate positive; of the 27 strains in C. coli serogroups, 26 (96.3%) were hippurate negative. Five strains were equally reactive in immunofluorescent staining with a conjugate for a C. jejuni serogroup and a conjugate for a C. coli serogroup. A total of 58 strains of C. jejuni were ungroupable: 33 (13%) of the 259 hippurate-positive strains and 25 (44%) of the 57 hippurate-negative strains. All 121 strains of C. fetus tested were groupable as A, B, or A:B. The 14 conjugates used to define serogroups of C. jejuni, C. coli, and C. fetus reacted with the flagella but not the cells of other Campylobacter species and were negative on 256 other bacteria from 21 genera.

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