Family outbreak of dysentery caused by a rhamnose non-fermenting, ONPG-negative strain of Shigella sonnei phage type 6.

Abstract

Three members of a Scottish family, with no history of foreign travel but who had recently visited Bristol, were infected by a strain of Shigella sonnei of phage type 6 (PT 6) that did not ferment rhamnose and was negative for o-nitrophenyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside (ONPG). The incident exposed limitations associated with commercial systems for the identification of strains of S. sonnei with atypical biochemical properties.

• Authors: D C Old, H Mather, T Cheasty
• Journal: Communicable disease and public health (Commun Dis Public Health) Vol. 3 Issue 2 Pg. 135-6 (Jun 2000) ISSN: 1462-1843 [Print] England
• PMID: 10902258 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Culture Media
• 2-nitrophenylgalactoside
• Nitrophenylgalactosides

Topics

• Adult
• Bacterial Typing Techniques
• Culture Media
• Disease Outbreaks
• Disease Transmission, Infectious
• Dysentery, Bacillary (diagnosis, epidemiology, microbiology, transmission)
• Family
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Nitrophenylgalactosides (analysis)
• Scotland
• Shigella sonnei (classification, isolation & purification)