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SUMMARY

strains isolated from children under the age of 11 months with conjunctivitis were characterised by biotype, sugar fermentation, plasmid pattern and outer-membrane-protein profiles. was the most common species identified and was separated into 14 groups based on sugar fermentation and biotype patterns and into more than 20 groups when plasmid and outer-membrane-protein profiles were included. Small (mol. wt< 10 × 10) plasmids were identified in 11 of 34 (32%) isolates, 1 of 2 and 4 of 6 (67%) isolates. Examination of sugar-fermentation and plasmid patterns increased the ability to distinguish between strains isolated at different times from recurrent disease and may have general applications in the study of strains isolated from a single anatomical site.

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