TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ott, M.
A1  - Bender, L.
A1  - Lück, P. C.
A1  - Meyer, P.
A1  - Hacker, Jörg
T1  - Distribution of Legionellae in a hospital water system: prevalence of immunologically and genetically related Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6 isolates
N2  - A hospital warm water system was monitored for the prcsence and distribution of lcgionellac. Subtyping of ten scletled Legionella pneumophiltl isolates. originating from four different sites in the system by using serogroup spccific antisera in an indircct immunofluorcscence tcst, rcvcalcd that nine of the tcn isolatcs belonged to scrogroup 6, while the remaining one was serogroup I 0. Two monoclonal antibodics (mAbs) spccific for a subgroup of serogroup 6 strains were further used for characterization. None of the strains reactcd with these mAbs. Genome analysis by elaborating Not I profiles using the pulscd field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) technique revealed that nearly all serogroup 6 isolates dcrived from different sites, including a new building connected hy a ring pipe. wcrc identical according to restriction fragment pattems. The patterns were distinguishable from those of the two L. pnewnophi/a serogroup 6 rcfcrencc strains, and ftom that of thc L. pneumophila scrogroup 10 isolate. These data arguc for a relatively homogeneaus L. pneunwpltila serogroup 6 population in the entire watcr system.
KW  - Infektionsbiologie
KW  - Legionella pneumophila
KW  - Hospital water system
KW  - Environmental isolate
KW  - Serogroup
KW  - Genomic profile
Y1  - 1992
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-59827
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Linhardt, F.
A1  - Ziebuhr, W.
A1  - Meyer, P.
A1  - Witte, W.
A1  - Hacker, Jörg
T1  - Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of genomic restriction fragments as a tool for the epidemiological analysis of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative Staphylococci
N2  - Thirtccn StttJ1hylococcus dw·eus and s: <'pid<'l'· midis strains ohtaincd from nnsc and hand nf twn cmployccs and onc paticnt uf a mcdical ward as weil as two S. hemol.\"licus strains wcrc analyscd according to thcir rcstrktion fmgmcnt lcngth pattcrns ( RFLP) hy pulscd-ficld gcl clcctrophorcsis (PFGE) using thc rcslriction cnzymcs SmaJ and s.. .· tll. Spccics idcntification nf thc isolatcs was pcrformcd hy a systcm which includcs :!O hiochcmical rc"ctions. Furthcrmorc. thc antillintic resistancc pattcrns of thc stmins wcrc dctcrmincd. Whilc scvcral isolatcs cxhihitcd idcnticaf antihiotic susccptihilitics and hiochcmical prnfilcs. diffcrences in thc RFLP wcrc ohtaincd. ln thrcc cascs, S. epidermülis strains colonizing thc skin showcd an idcntical rcstriction profilc as isollltcs from thc mucous mcmhrancs of thc samc pcrson. Wc C(mcludcd that thc analysis of staphylococcal strains hy PFGE is an important cpidcmiolngical tnnl with high discrimination power.
KW  - Infektionsbiologie
Y1  - 1992
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-59811
ER  -