Molecular genotyping by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of restricted genomic DNA of strains of taylorella equigenitalis isolated in Ireland and in the United States

The profiles, after digestion with ApaI or NotI and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), of genomic DNA from 18 strains of Taylorella equigenitalis isolated in Ireland were of three different types. The 13 strains in one of these types gave PFGE profiles identical to that of an American prototype strain, Kentucky 188, but different from strain NCTC11184T and from a strain isolated in Japan.