Serovar

Serovar

A serovar or serotype is a group of microorganisms or viruses based on their cell surface antigens. Serovars allow the epidemiologic classification of organisms to the sub-species level. cite book | author = Baron EJ | title = Classification. "In:" Baron's Medical Microbiology "(Baron S "et al", eds.)| edition = 4th ed. | publisher = Univ of Texas Medical Branch | year = 1996 | id = [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=mmed.section.352 (via NCBI Bookshelf)] ISBN 0-9631172-1-1] A group of serovars with common antigens is called a serogroup.

Serovars may be established based on virulence factors, lipopolysaccharides in Gram-negative bacteria, presence of an exotoxin (pertussis toxin in "Bordetella pertussis", for example), plasmids, phages, or other characteristics which differentiate two members of the same species. cite book | author = Ryan KJ; Ray CG (editors) | title = Sherris Medical Microbiology | edition = 4th ed. | publisher = McGraw Hill | year = 2004 | id = ISBN 0-8385-8529-9]

"Salmonella", for example, has over 4400 serovars: "Salmonella enterica" serovar Typhimurium, "S. enterica" serovar Typhi, and "S. enterica" serovar Dublin, to name a few.

"Vibrio cholerae", which causes cholera, has 139 serotypes, based on cell antigens. Only two of them produce an enterotoxin and are pathogens: 0:1 and 0:139.

Serotypes were discovered by the American microbiologist Rebecca Lancefield in 1933.cite journal | author = Lancefield RC | title = A serological differentiation of human and other groups of hemolytic streptococci |journal=J Exp Med |year=1933 |volume=57 |pages=571 |url= http://www.jem.org/cgi/content/abstract/57/4/571 | doi = 10.1084/jem.57.4.571 | format = abstract]

ee also

*Biovar
*Morphovar

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