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J Bacteriol, May 1998, p. 2775-2778, Vol. 180, No. 10
0021-9193/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Generation of Escherichia coli O9a Serotype, a Subtype of E. coli O9, by Transfer of the wb* Gene Cluster of Klebsiella O3 into E. coli via Recombination

Tsuyoshi Sugiyama,1,* Nobuo Kido,2 Yutaka Kato,1 Naoki Koide,1 Tomoaki Yoshida,1 and Takashi Yokochi1

Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Research Center for Infectious Disease, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1195,1 and Biological Systems, Department of Natural Science Informatics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601,2 Japan

Received 29 December 1997/Accepted 19 March 1998

Genetic characterization of the wb* gene in a series of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella strains possessing the mannose homopolymer as the O-specific polysaccharide was carried out. The partial nucleotide sequences and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis suggested that E. coli serotype O9a, a subtype of E. coli O9, might have been generated by the insertion of the Klebsiella O3 wb* gene into a certain E. coli strain.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1195, Japan. Phone: 81 561 62 3311, ext. 2109. Fax: 81 561 63 9187. E-mail: sugiyama{at}aichi-med-u.ac.jp.

J Bacteriol, May 1998, p. 2775-2778, Vol. 180, No. 10
0021-9193/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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