SPADA Book - April 11, 2017

Yersinia pestis Inclusivity Panel – Tier 2

A4.2.5 Yersinia pestis . If any listed strain is not available, an alternate strain shall be selected from the same biovar. If an alternate strain from the same biovar is not available, a strain different than those listed below shall be selected if available;

Tier 2 Yersinia pestis Inclusivity Panel Note: This panel is still under development and strain selection has not been finalized. The following needs to be addressed: 1) Can we reduce this panel to fewer strains and still have representative coverage of Yersinia pestsis? 2) If so, which do we keep and which do we remove? Species Strain Notes Yersinia pestis Angola A Biovar Antiqua Yersinia pestis Antiqua Biovar Antiqua Yersinia pestis CO92 Biovar Orientalis Yersinia pestis Harbin35 Biovar Mediaevalis Yersinia pestis KIM Biovar Mediaevalis Yersinia pestis Nairobi Biovar Antiqua Yersinia pestis Nicholisk 41 Biovar Mediaevalis Yersinia pestis Pestoides B Biovar Mediaevalis Yersinia pestis Pestoides F Biovar Antiqua Yersinia pestis Pestoides G Biovar Antiqua Adapted from Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (2016) 20th Ed., AOAC INTERNATIONAL, Rockville, MD, USA, AOAC SMPR 2010.002, www.eoma.aoac.org, and Yersinia pestis 2016.008-Journal of AOAC InternationalVolume 99, Number 4, July-August 2016, pp. 1095-1100.

Yersinia pestis Exclusivity - Tier 1