Bacteriophage Typing of Enterotoxigenic E.coli
Abstract: This paper reports that 46 phage strains lysing enterotoxigenic(LT, ST, LT-ST) E.coli were isolated from 82 sewage samples collected from Shanghai suburb. 19 phages of them were selected and used to type enterotoxigenie E.coli strains,75 from WHO and National Institute for tile Control of Pharmaceutical and Biological Product and 51 from Fujian Provincial Health and Antiepidemic Station. It was found that they can be typed into 48 (98.66%) and 32 (98.39%)patterns respectively. Routine test dilution of the t...