%0 Journal Article %A Barker, Ruth M. %A Kearney, Gabrielle M. %A Nicholson, P. %A Blair, Andrea L. %A Porter, R. C. %A Crichton, Pamela B. %T Types of Salmonella paratyphi B and their phylogenetic significance %D 1988 %J Journal of Medical Microbiology, %V 26 %N 4 %P 285-293 %@ 1473-5644 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00222615-26-4-285 %I Microbiology Society, %X SUMMARY The substrates inositol, rhamnose, d-tartrate and m-tartrate used in fermentation tests with 338 cultures of Salmonella paratyphi B differentiated strains in some phage types to give information that could be used in epidemiological investigations. Xylose in Bitter’s medium, the fifth substrate by which 13 of a potential 32 biotypes were identified, differentiated few cultures with the negative character. The possession of a specific type of outer-membrane protein receptor for colicin M or bacteriophage ES18 and the particular type of ribosomal ribonucleic acid present, defined three groups among the phage-typed and biotyped cultures. The possibility that the serotype S. paratyphi B contains clones of different phylogenetic origin and the consequent implications for nomenclature are discussed. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/00222615-26-4-285