Abstract

ESNARD BOLANOS, Sara C. Empleo de sueros diagnósticos producidos en la República Popular China para la serotipificación de Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Rev Cubana Farm [online]. 1997, vol.31, n.2, pp. 107-112. ISSN 1561-2988.

The serotyping of 355 strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from clinical and environmental order was carried out. The strains were provided by Cuban Provincial Centers of Hygiene and Epidemiology during 1988 and 1989. The technique of agglutination in plaques was used with the utilization of kits from 20 diagnostic sera produced at the Institute of Biological Products from Chengdu, China, which allowed to recognize 17 somatic antigenic typing for this microorganism and 3 recently described. The typing obtained was found to be of 97 % evidencing the feasibility of these antisera. The predominant occurrence of 011 serotype and the presence for the first time in Cuba of new somatic types such as 018 (1 %), 019 (5 %), and 020 (3 %) were proved.

Keywords : PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA [classification]; SEROTYPING; AGGLUTINATION TESTS [methods]; IMMUNE SERA [diagnostic use].