Characterization of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O26 Strains and Establishment of Selective Isolation Media for These Strains
AUTOR(ES)
Hiramatsu, Reiji
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
We characterized the carbohydrate-fermenting ability of 31 strains of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O26 isolated from diarrhea patients in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, in order to establish selective isolation media for these strains. None of the 31 STEC O26 strains (24 O26:H11, 7 O26:H−) fermented rhamnose, whereas all of the other 108 STEC strains (100 O157, 8 O111) and all of the non-STEC strains except one (i.e., 58 of 59) fermented rhamnose. The great majority of the STEC O26 strains (96.8% [30 of 31]) showed very high resistance to potassium tellurite (MIC ≥ 50 μg/ml), whereas the majority of the non-STEC strains (72.9% [43 of 59]) showed very high sensitivity (MIC ≤ 1.56 μg/ml) to this compound. Accordingly, we developed a rhamnose-MacConkey (RMAC) medium in which the lactose in MacConkey medium was replaced by rhamnose, and cefixime-tellurite-RMAC (CT-RMAC) medium in which potassium tellurite (2.5 mg/liter) and cefixime (0.05 mg/liter) were added to RMAC. All of the STEC O26 strains generated colorless (rhamnose-nonfermented) colonies on both media; the vast majority of selected E. coli strains (95.7% [89 of 93; including 26 STEC O157, 8 STEC O111]), other than STEC O26, generated red colonies on RMAC, and most of the non-STEC strains (84.7% [50 of 59]) did not grow on CT-RMAC. We demonstrate that both the RMAC and the CT-RMAC media can be used for the isolation of STEC O26 and that CT-RMAC has better specificity for the routine isolation for STEC O26 in a laboratory.
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