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Laverde D, Probst I, Romero-Saavedra F, Kropec A, Wobser D, Keller W, Grohmann E, Huebner J. Targeting Type IV Secretion System Proteins to Combat Multidrug-Resistant Gram-positive Pathogens. J Infect Dis 2017; 215:1836-1845. [PMID: 28863473 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jix227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2016] [Accepted: 05/11/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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For many gram-positive pathogens, conjugative plasmid transfer is an important means of spreading antibiotic resistance . Therefore, the search for alternative treatments to fight and prevent infections caused by these bacteria has become of major interest. In the present study, we evaluated the protein TraM, from the conjugative plasmid pIP501, as a potential vaccine candidate. Anti-TraM antiserum mediated in vitro opsonophagocytic killing of the strain harboring the pIP501 plasmid and also proved to be cross-reactive against other clinically relevant enterococcal and staphylococcal strains. Specificity of antibodies toward TraM was confirmed by results of an opsonophagocytic inhibition assay and Western blot. In addition, conjugative transfer experiments proved that TraM is essential for the transfer of pIP501. Finally, immunization with either TraM or anti-TraM antiserum reduced significantly the colony counts in mice livers, demonstrating that TraM is a promising vaccine candidate against enterococci and other gram-positive pathogens.
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- Diana Laverde
- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg.,Faculty of Biology, Microbiology, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
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- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg
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- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, NAWI Graz, University of Graz, Austria
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg.,Microbiology, Faculty of Life Sciences and Technology, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich.,Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg
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Peng Z, Li M, Wang W, Liu H, Fanning S, Hu Y, Zhang J, Li F. Genomic insights into the pathogenicity and environmental adaptability of Enterococcus hirae R17 isolated from pork offered for retail sale. Microbiologyopen 2017; 6. [PMID: 28799224 PMCID: PMC5727370 DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.514] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2017] [Revised: 05/18/2017] [Accepted: 05/25/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Genetic information about Enterococcus hirae is limited, a feature that has compromised our understanding of these clinically challenging bacteria. In this study, comparative analysis was performed of E. hirae R17, a daptomycin‐resistant strain isolated from pork purchased from a retail market in Beijing, China, and three other enterococcal genomes (Enterococcus faecium DO, Enterococcus faecalis V583, and E. hirae ATCC™9790). Some 1,412 genes were identified that represented the core genome together with an additional 139 genes that were specific to E. hirae R17. The functions of these R17 strain‐specific coding sequences relate to the COGs categories of carbohydrate transport and metabolism and transcription, a finding that suggests the carbohydrate utilization capacity of E. hirae R17 may be more extensive when compared with the other three bacterial species (spp.). Analysis of genomic islands and virulence genes highlighted the potential that horizontal gene transfer played as a contributor of variations in pathogenicity in this isolate. Drug‐resistance gene prediction and antibiotic susceptibility testing indicated E. hirae R17 was resistant to several antimicrobial compounds, including bacitracin, ciprofloxacin, daptomycin, erythromycin, and tetracycline, thereby limiting chemotherapeutic treatment options. Further, tolerance to biocides and metals may confer a phenotype that facilitates the survival and adaptation of this isolate against food preservatives, disinfectants, and antibacterial coatings. The genomic plasticity, mediated by IS elements, transposases, and tandem repeats, identified in the E. hirae R17 genome may support adaptation to new environmental niches, such as those that are found in hospitalized patients. A predicted transmissible plasmid, pRZ1, was found to carry several antimicrobial determinants, along with some predicted pathogenic genes. These data supported the previously determined phenotype confirming that the foodborne E. hirae R17 is a multidrug‐resistant pathogenic bacterium with evident genome plasticity and environmental adaptability.
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- Zixin Peng
- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, Ministry of Health, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, China.,State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, Ministry of Health, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, Ministry of Health, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, China
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- Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, Ministry of Health, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, China.,UCD-Centre for Food Safety, School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
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- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, Ministry of Health, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, Ministry of Health, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing, China
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Covering: up to 2017.Natural products are important secondary metabolites produced by bacterial and fungal species that play important roles in cellular growth and signaling, nutrient acquisition, intra- and interspecies communication, and virulence. A subset of natural products is produced by nonribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs), a family of large, modular enzymes that function in an assembly line fashion. Because of the pharmaceutical activity of many NRPS products, much effort has gone into the exploration of their biosynthetic pathways and the diverse products they make. Many interesting NRPS pathways have been identified and characterized from both terrestrial and marine bacterial sources. Recently, several NRPS pathways in human commensal bacterial species have been identified that produce molecules with antibiotic activity, suggesting another source of interesting NRPS pathways may be the commensal and pathogenic bacteria that live on the human body. The ESKAPE pathogens (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter spp.) have been identified as a significant cause of human bacterial infections that are frequently multidrug resistant. The emerging resistance profile of these organisms has prompted calls from multiple international agencies to identify novel antibacterial targets and develop new approaches to treat infections from ESKAPE pathogens. Each of these species contains several NRPS biosynthetic gene clusters. While some have been well characterized and produce known natural products with important biological roles in microbial physiology, others have yet to be investigated. This review catalogs the NRPS pathways of ESKAPE pathogens. The exploration of novel NRPS products may lead to a better understanding of the chemical communication used by human pathogens and potentially to the discovery of novel therapeutic approaches.
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- Andrew M Gulick
- Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, 700 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, USA.
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A pilot study demonstrating the altered gut microbiota functionality in stable adults with Cystic Fibrosis. Sci Rep 2017; 7:6685. [PMID: 28751714 PMCID: PMC5532234 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06880-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2017] [Accepted: 06/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and its treatment result in an altered gut microbiota composition compared to non-CF controls. However, the impact of this on gut microbiota functionality has not been extensively characterised. Our aim was to conduct a proof-of-principle study to investigate if measurable changes in gut microbiota functionality occur in adult CF patients compared to controls. Metagenomic DNA was extracted from faecal samples from six CF patients and six non-CF controls and shotgun metagenomic sequencing was performed on the MiSeq platform. Metabolomic analysis using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was conducted on faecal water. The gut microbiota of the CF group was significantly different compared to the non-CF controls, with significantly increased Firmicutes and decreased Bacteroidetes. Functionality was altered, with higher pathway abundances and gene families involved in lipid (e.g. PWY 6284 unsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis (p = 0.016)) and xenobiotic metabolism (e.g. PWY-5430 meta-cleavage pathway of aromatic compounds (p = 0.004)) in CF patients compared to the controls. Significant differences in metabolites occurred between the two groups. This proof-of-principle study demonstrates that measurable changes in gut microbiota functionality occur in CF patients compared to controls. Larger studies are thus needed to interrogate this further.
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Rapid detection of high-risk Enterococcus faecium clones by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2017; 87:299-307. [DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2016.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2016] [Revised: 11/07/2016] [Accepted: 12/11/2016] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Characterization of Class IIa Bacteriocin Resistance in Enterococcus faecium. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2017; 61:AAC.02033-16. [PMID: 28115354 DOI: 10.1128/aac.02033-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2016] [Accepted: 01/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Vancomycin-resistant enterococci, particularly resistant Enterococcus faecium, pose an escalating threat in nosocomial environments because of their innate resistance to many antibiotics, including vancomycin, a treatment of last resort. Many class IIa bacteriocins strongly target these enterococci and may offer a potential alternative for the management of this pathogen. However, E. faecium's resistance to these peptides remains relatively uncharacterized. Here, we explored the development of resistance of E. faecium to a cocktail of three class IIa bacteriocins: enterocin A, enterocin P, and hiracin JM79. We started by quantifying the frequency of resistance to these peptides in four clinical isolates of E. faecium We then investigated the levels of resistance of E. faecium 6E6 mutants as well as their fitness in different carbon sources. In order to elucidate the mechanism of resistance of E. faecium to class IIa bacteriocins, we completed whole-genome sequencing of resistant mutants and performed reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (qRT-PCR) of a suspected target mannose phosphotransferase (ManPTS). We then verified this ManPTS's role in bacteriocin susceptibility by showing that expression of the ManPTS in Lactococcus lactis results in susceptibility to the peptide cocktail. Based on the evidence found from these studies, we conclude that, in accord with other studies in E. faecalis and Listeria monocytogenes, resistance to class IIa bacteriocins in E. faecium 6E6 is likely caused by the disruption of a particular ManPTS, which we believe we have identified.
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Beukers AG, Zaheer R, Goji N, Amoako KK, Chaves AV, Ward MP, McAllister TA. Comparative genomics of Enterococcus spp. isolated from bovine feces. BMC Microbiol 2017; 17:52. [PMID: 28270110 PMCID: PMC5341189 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-017-0962-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2016] [Accepted: 02/21/2017] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Background Enterococcus is ubiquitous in nature and is a commensal of both the bovine and human gastrointestinal (GI) tract. It is also associated with clinical infections in humans. Subtherapeutic administration of antibiotics to cattle selects for antibiotic resistant enterococci in the bovine GI tract. Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) may be present in enterococci following antibiotic use in cattle. If located on mobile genetic elements (MGEs) their dissemination between Enterococcus species and to pathogenic bacteria may be promoted, reducing the efficacy of antibiotics. Results We present a comparative genomic analysis of twenty-one Enterococcus spp. isolated from bovine feces including Enterococcus hirae (n = 10), Enterococcus faecium (n = 3), Enterococcus villorum (n = 2), Enterococcus casseliflavus (n = 2), Enterococcus faecalis (n = 1), Enterococcus durans (n = 1), Enterococcus gallinarum (n = 1) and Enterococcus thailandicus (n = 1). The analysis revealed E. faecium and E. faecalis from bovine feces share features with human clinical isolates, including virulence factors. The Tn917 transposon conferring macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance was identified in both E. faecium and E. hirae, suggesting dissemination of ARGs on MGEs may occur in the bovine GI tract. An E. faecium isolate was also identified with two integrative conjugative elements (ICEs) belonging to the Tn916 family of ICE, Tn916 and Tn5801, both conferring tetracycline resistance. Conclusions This study confirms the presence of enterococci in the bovine GI tract possessing ARGs on MGEs, but the predominant species in cattle, E. hirae is not commonly associated with infections in humans. Analysis using additional complete genomes of E. faecium from the NCBI database demonstrated differential clustering of commensal and clinical isolates, suggesting that these strains may be specifically adapted to their respective environments. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12866-017-0962-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Alicia G Beukers
- Faculty of Veterinary Science, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.,Lethbridge Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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- Lethbridge Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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- Canadian Food Inspection Agency, National Center for Animal Disease, Lethbridge Laboratory, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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- Canadian Food Inspection Agency, National Center for Animal Disease, Lethbridge Laboratory, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
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- Faculty of Veterinary Science, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Faculty of Veterinary Science, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Lethbridge Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge, AB, Canada.
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Buultjens AH, Lam MMC, Ballard S, Monk IR, Mahony AA, Grabsch EA, Grayson ML, Pang S, Coombs GW, Robinson JO, Seemann T, Johnson PDR, Howden BP, Stinear TP. Evolutionary origins of the emergent ST796 clone of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium. PeerJ 2017; 5:e2916. [PMID: 28149688 PMCID: PMC5267571 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2016] [Accepted: 12/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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From early 2012, a novel clone of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (assigned the multi locus sequence type ST796) was simultaneously isolated from geographically separate hospitals in south eastern Australia and New Zealand. Here we describe the complete genome sequence of Ef_aus0233, a representative ST796 E. faecium isolate. We used PacBio single molecule real-time sequencing to establish a high quality, fully assembled genome comprising a circular chromosome of 2,888,087 bp and five plasmids. Comparison of Ef_aus0233 to other E. faecium genomes shows Ef_aus0233 is a member of the epidemic hospital-adapted lineage and has evolved from an ST555-like ancestral progenitor by the accumulation or modification of five mosaic plasmids and five putative prophage, acquisition of two cryptic genomic islands, accrued chromosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms and a 80 kb region of recombination, also gaining Tn1549 and Tn916, transposons conferring resistance to vancomycin and tetracycline respectively. The genomic dissection of this new clone presented here underscores the propensity of the hospital E. faecium lineage to change, presumably in response to the specific conditions of hospital and healthcare environments.
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- Andrew H Buultjens
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
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- Microbiology Diagnostic Unit, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
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- Infectious Diseases Department, Austin Health , Heidelberg , Victoria , Australia
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- Infectious Diseases Department, Austin Health , Heidelberg , Victoria , Australia
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- Infectious Diseases Department, Austin Health , Heidelberg , Victoria , Australia
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- School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia; Department of Microbiology, Pathwest Laboratory Medicine-WA, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia; Department of Microbiology, Pathwest Laboratory Medicine-WA, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
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- School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia; Department of Infectious Diseases, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
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- Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative, University of Melbourne , Carlton , Victoria , Australia
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- Infectious Diseases Department, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia; Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Microbiology Diagnostic Unit, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne , Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
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Lim SY, Yap KP, Teh CSJ, Jabar KA, Thong KL. Comparative genome analysis of multiple vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolated from two fatal cases. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2017; 49:55-65. [PMID: 28039075 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2016.12.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2016] [Revised: 12/22/2016] [Accepted: 12/25/2016] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Enterococcus faecium is both a commensal of the human intestinal tract and an opportunistic pathogen. The increasing incidence of enterococcal infections is mainly due to the ability of this organism to develop resistance to multiple antibiotics, including vancomycin. The aim of this study was to perform comparative genome analyses on four vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) strains isolated from two fatal cases in a tertiary hospital in Malaysia. Two sequence types, ST80 and ST203, were identified which belong to the clinically important clonal complex (CC) 17. This is the first report on the emergence of ST80 strains in Malaysia. Three of the studied strains (VREr5, VREr6, VREr7) were each isolated from different body sites of a single patient (patient Y) and had different PFGE patterns. While VREr6 and VREr7 were phenotypically and genotypically similar, the initial isolate, VREr5, was found to be more similar to VRE2 isolated from another patient (patient X), in terms of the genome contents, sequence types and phylogenomic relationship. Both the clinical records and genome sequence data suggested that patient Y was infected by multiple strains from different clones and the strain that infected patient Y could have derived from the same clone from patient X. These multidrug resistant strains harbored a number of virulence genes such as the epa locus and pilus-associated genes which could enhance their persistence. Apart from that, a homolog of E. faecalis bee locus was identified in VREr5 which might be involved in biofilm formation. Overall, our comparative genomic analyses had provided insight into the genetic relatedness, as well as the virulence potential, of the four clinical strains.
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- Shu Yong Lim
- Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Differential Penicillin-Binding Protein 5 (PBP5) Levels in the Enterococcus faecium Clades with Different Levels of Ampicillin Resistance. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2016; 61:AAC.02034-16. [PMID: 27821450 DOI: 10.1128/aac.02034-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2016] [Accepted: 11/01/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Ampicillin resistance in Enterococcus faecium is a serious concern worldwide, complicating the treatment of E. faecium infections. Penicillin-binding protein 5 (PBP5) is considered the main ampicillin resistance determinant in E. faecium The three known E. faecium clades showed sequence variations in the pbp5 gene that are associated with their ampicillin resistance phenotype; however, these changes alone do not explain the array of resistance levels observed among E. faecium clinical strains. We aimed to determine if the levels of PBP5 are differentially regulated between the E. faecium clades, with the hypothesis that variations in PBP5 levels could help account for the spectrum of ampicillin MICs seen in E. faecium We studied pbp5 mRNA levels and PBP5 protein levels as well as the genetic environment upstream of pbp5 in 16 E. faecium strains that belong to the different E. faecium clades and for which the ampicillin MICs covered a wide range. Our results found that pbp5 and PBP5 levels are increased in subclade A1 and A2 ampicillin-resistant strains compared to those in clade B and subclade A2 ampicillin-susceptible strains. Furthermore, we found evidence of major clade-associated rearrangements in the region upstream of pbp5, including large DNA fragment insertions, deletions, and single nucleotide polymorphisms, that may be associated with the differential regulation of PBP5 levels between the E. faecium clades. Overall, these findings highlight the contribution of the clade background to the regulation of PBP5 abundance and point to differences in the region upstream of pbp5 as likely contributors to the differential expression of ampicillin resistance.
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Montealegre MC, Singh KV, Murray BE. Gastrointestinal Tract Colonization Dynamics by Different Enterococcus faecium Clades. J Infect Dis 2016; 213:1914-22. [PMID: 26671890 PMCID: PMC4878718 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2015] [Accepted: 11/03/2015] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Colonization of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) generally precedes infection with antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus faecium We used a mouse GIT colonization model to test differences in the colonization levels by strains from different E. faecium lineages: clade B, part of the healthy human microbiota; subclade A1, associated with infections; and subclade A2, primarily associated with animals. After mono-inoculation, there was no significant difference in colonization (measured as the geometric mean number of colony-forming units per gram) by the E. faecium clades at any time point (P > .05). However, in competition assays, with 6 of the 7 pairs, clade B strains outcompeted clade A strains in their ability to persist in the GIT; this difference was significant in some pairs by day 2 and in all pairs by day 14 (P < .0008-.0283). This observation may explain the predominance of clade B in the community and why antibiotic-resistant hospital-associated E. faecium are often replaced by clade B strains once patients leave the hospital.
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- Maria Camila Montealegre
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Guzman Prieto AM, van Schaik W, Rogers MRC, Coque TM, Baquero F, Corander J, Willems RJL. Global Emergence and Dissemination of Enterococci as Nosocomial Pathogens: Attack of the Clones? Front Microbiol 2016; 7:788. [PMID: 27303380 PMCID: PMC4880559 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 202] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2016] [Accepted: 05/09/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Enterococci are Gram-positive bacteria that are found in plants, soil and as commensals of the gastrointestinal tract of humans, mammals, and insects. Despite their commensal nature, they have also become globally important nosocomial pathogens. Within the genus Enterococcus, Enterococcus faecium, and Enterococcus faecalis are clinically most relevant. In this review, we will discuss how E. faecium and E. faecalis have evolved to become a globally disseminated nosocomial pathogen. E. faecium has a defined sub-population that is associated with hospitalized patients and is rarely encountered in community settings. These hospital-associated clones are characterized by the acquisition of adaptive genetic elements, including genes involved in metabolism, biofilm formation, and antibiotic resistance. In contrast to E. faecium, clones of E. faecalis isolated from hospitalized patients, including strains causing clinical infections, are not exclusively found in hospitals but are also present in healthy individuals and animals. This observation suggests that the division between commensals and hospital-adapted lineages is less clear for E. faecalis than for E. faecium. In addition, genes that are reported to be associated with virulence of E. faecalis are often not unique to clinical isolates, but are also found in strains that originate from commensal niches. As a reflection of more ancient association of E. faecalis with different hosts, these determinants Thus, they may not represent genuine virulence genes but may act as host-adaptive functions that are useful in a variety of intestinal environments. The scope of the review is to summarize recent trends in the emergence of antibiotic resistance and explore recent developments in the molecular epidemiology, population structure and mechanisms of adaptation of E. faecium and E. faecalis.
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- Ana M Guzman Prieto
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación SanitariaMadrid, Spain; CIBER Epidemiología y Salud PúblicaMadrid, Spain; Unidad de Resistencia a Antibióticos y Virulencia Bacteriana Asociada al Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasMadrid, Spain
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- Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación SanitariaMadrid, Spain; CIBER Epidemiología y Salud PúblicaMadrid, Spain; Unidad de Resistencia a Antibióticos y Virulencia Bacteriana Asociada al Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasMadrid, Spain
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands
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de Vries LE, Hasman H, Jurado Rabadán S, Agersø Y. Sequence-Based Characterization of Tn5801-Like Genomic Islands in Tetracycline-Resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius and Other Gram-positive Bacteria from Humans and Animals. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:576. [PMID: 27199912 PMCID: PMC4844618 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2015] [Accepted: 04/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Antibiotic resistance in pathogens is often associated with mobile genetic elements, such as genomic islands (GI) including integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs). These can transfer resistance genes within and between bacteria from humans and/or animals. The aim of this study was to investigate whether Tn5801-like GIs carrying the tetracycline resistance gene, tet(M), are common in Staphylococcus pseudintermedius from pets, and to do an overall sequences-based characterization of Tn5801-like GIs detected in Gram-positive bacteria from humans and animals. A total of 27 tetracycline-resistant S. pseudintermedius isolates from Danish pets (1998–2005) were screened for tet(M) by PCR. Selected isolates (13) were screened for GI- or ICE-specific genes (intTn5801 or xisTn916) and their tet(M) gene was sequenced (Sanger-method). Long-range PCR mappings and whole-genome-sequencing (Illumina) were performed for selected S. pseudintermedius-isolates (seven and three isolates, respectively) as well as for human S. aureus isolates (seven and one isolates, respectively) and one porcine Enterococcus faecium isolate known to carry Tn5801-like GIs. All 27 S. pseudintermedius were positive for tet(M). Out of 13 selected isolates, seven contained Tn5801-like GIs and six contained Tn916-like ICEs. Two different Tn5801-like GI types were detected among S. pseudintermedius (Tn5801 and GI6287) - both showed high similarity compared to GenBank sequences from human pathogens. Two distinct Tn5801-like GI types were detected among the porcine E. faecium and human S. aureus isolates (Tn6014 and GI6288). Tn5801-like GIs were detected in GenBank-sequences from Gram-positive bacteria of human, animal or food origin worldwide. Known Tn5801-like GIs were divided into seven types. The results showed that Tn5801-like GIs appear to be relatively common in tetracycline-resistant S. pseudintermedius in Denmark. Almost identical Tn5801-like GIs were identified in different Gram-positive species of pet and human origin, suggesting that horizontal transfer of these elements has occurred between S. pseudintermedius from pets and human pathogens, including S. aureus.
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- Lisbeth E de Vries
- Department of Technology, Metropolitan University College Copenhagen, Denmark
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Copenhagen Lyngby, Denmark
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Copenhagen Lyngby, Denmark
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Whelton E, Lynch C, O'Reilly B, Corcoran GD, Cryan B, Keane SM, Sleator RD, Lucey B. Vancomycin-resistant enterococci carriage in an acute Irish hospital. J Hosp Infect 2016; 93:175-80. [PMID: 27112046 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2016.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2015] [Accepted: 03/08/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Ireland has been shown to have the highest rate of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in cases of bacteraemia in Europe, according to a report in 2014 from the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System Network. AIM To investigate the prevalence of VRE gut colonization in a cohort of patients in 2014 at Cork University Hospital (CUH) by performing a cross-sectional study using faecal samples submitted to the microbiology laboratory for routine investigation from both hospital inpatients and community-based patients. METHODS Faeces were examined for VRE colonization using selective cultivation, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and speciation using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. All VRE isolates were evaluated by molecular means for resistance determinants, type, and Insertion Sequence 16 as an indicator of Clonal Complex 17 (CC17). FINDINGS From the 350 specimens investigated, 67 (19.1%) specimens were positive for VRE [95% confidence interval (CI): 15.0-23.2]. The prevalence of VRE colonization among CUH patients tested in this study (N = 194) was 31.4% (95% CI: 24.7-38.1). By contrast, the general practitioner patient samples (N=29) showed a prevalence of 0%, whereas 22.2% of samples from other hospitals (N=27) were positive for VRE. All isolates were Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) and were indicated to contain CC17, though with considerable heterogeneity among the isolates. CONCLUSION This high prevalence goes some way towards providing an explanation for the current high rates of VRE bacteraemia in Ireland, as well as highlighting the benefits of screening and enhanced infection control practices by all hospitals to control the high rates of VRE observed.
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- E Whelton
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Pathology, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland.
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Paganelli FL, Huebner J, Singh KV, Zhang X, van Schaik W, Wobser D, Braat JC, Murray BE, Bonten MJM, Willems RJL, Leavis HL. Genome-wide Screening Identifies Phosphotransferase System Permease BepA to Be Involved in Enterococcus faecium Endocarditis and Biofilm Formation. J Infect Dis 2016; 214:189-95. [PMID: 26984142 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiw108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2015] [Accepted: 03/07/2016] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Enterococcus faecium is a common cause of nosocomial infections, of which infective endocarditis is associated with substantial mortality. In this study, we used a microarray-based transposon mapping (M-TraM) approach to evaluate a rat endocarditis model and identified a gene, originally annotated as "fruA" and renamed "bepA," putatively encoding a carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS) permease (biofilm and endocarditis-associated permease A [BepA]), as important in infective endocarditis. This gene is highly enriched in E. faecium clinical isolates and absent in commensal isolates that are not associated with infection. Confirmation of the phenotype was established in a competition experiment of wild-type and a markerless bepA mutant in a rat endocarditis model. In addition, deletion of bepA impaired biofilm formation in vitro in the presence of 100% human serum and metabolism of β-methyl-D-glucoside. β-glucoside metabolism has been linked to the metabolism of glycosaminoglycans that are exposed on injured heart valves, where bacteria attach and form vegetations. Therefore, we propose that the PTS permease BepA is directly implicated in E. faecium pathogenesis.
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- Fernanda L Paganelli
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwigs-Maximilian Universität München Center for Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Center for Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Center for the Study of Emerging and Re-emerging Pathogens Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Bakour S, Sankar SA, Rathored J, Biagini P, Raoult D, Fournier PE. Identification of virulence factors and antibiotic resistance markers using bacterial genomics. Future Microbiol 2016; 11:455-66. [PMID: 26974504 DOI: 10.2217/fmb.15.149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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In recent years, the number of multidrug-resistant bacteria has increased rapidly and several epidemics were signaled in different regions of the world. Faced with this situation that presents a major global public health concern, the development and the use of new and rapid technologies is more than urgent. The use of the next-generation sequencing platforms by microbiologists and infectious disease specialists has allowed great progress in the medical field. Here, we review the usefulness of whole-genome sequencing for the detection of virulence and antibiotic resistance associated genes.
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- Sofiane Bakour
- Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), UM 63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Aix-Marseille-Université, Marseille, France
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- Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), UM 63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Aix-Marseille-Université, Marseille, France
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- Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), UM 63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Aix-Marseille-Université, Marseille, France
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- UMR CNRS 7268 Equipe "Emergence et coévolution virale," Etablissement Français du Sang Alpes-Méditerranée et Aix-Marseille Université, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005 Marseille
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- Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), UM 63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Aix-Marseille-Université, Marseille, France
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- Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes (URMITE), UM 63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, INSERM 1095, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Aix-Marseille-Université, Marseille, France
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The N-terminal domain of the thermo-regulated surface protein PrpA of Enterococcus faecium binds to fibrinogen, fibronectin and platelets. Sci Rep 2015; 5:18255. [PMID: 26675410 PMCID: PMC4682149 DOI: 10.1038/srep18255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2015] [Accepted: 11/16/2015] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Enterococcus faecium is a commensal of the mammalian gastrointestinal tract, but is also found in non-enteric environments where it can grow between 10 °C and 45 °C. E. faecium has recently emerged as a multi-drug resistant nosocomial pathogen. We hypothesized that genes involved in the colonization and infection of mammals exhibit temperature-regulated expression control and we therefore performed a transcriptome analysis of the clinical isolate E. faecium E1162, during mid-exponential growth at 25 °C and 37 °C. One of the genes that exhibited differential expression between 25 °C and 37 °C, was predicted to encode a peptidoglycan-anchored surface protein. The N-terminal domain of this protein is unique to E. faecium and closely related enterococci, while the C-terminal domain is homologous to the Streptococcus agalactiae surface protein BibA. This region of the protein contains proline-rich repeats, leading us to name the protein PrpA for proline-rich protein A. We found that PrpA is a surface-exposed protein which is most abundant during exponential growth at 37 °C in E. faecium E1162. The heterologously expressed and purified N-terminal domain of PrpA was able to bind to the extracellular matrix proteins fibrinogen and fibronectin. In addition, the N-terminal domain of PrpA interacted with both non-activated and activated platelets.
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Core Genome Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for High-Resolution Typing of Enterococcus faecium. J Clin Microbiol 2015; 53:3788-97. [DOI: 10.1128/jcm.01946-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 189] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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ABSTRACT
Enterococcus faecium
, a common inhabitant of the human gut, has emerged in the last 2 decades as an important multidrug-resistant nosocomial pathogen. Since the start of the 21st century, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) has been used to study the molecular epidemiology of
E. faecium
. However, due to the use of a small number of genes, the resolution of MLST is limited. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) now allows for high-resolution tracing of outbreaks, but current WGS-based approaches lack standardization, rendering them less suitable for interlaboratory prospective surveillance. To overcome this limitation, we developed a core genome MLST (cgMLST) scheme for
E. faecium
. cgMLST transfers genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) diversity into a standardized and portable allele numbering system that is far less computationally intensive than SNP-based analysis of WGS data. The
E. faecium
cgMLST scheme was built using 40 genome sequences that represented the diversity of the species. The scheme consists of 1,423 cgMLST target genes. To test the performance of the scheme, we performed WGS analysis of 103 outbreak isolates from five different hospitals in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany. The cgMLST scheme performed well in distinguishing between epidemiologically related and unrelated isolates, even between those that had the same sequence type (ST), which denotes the higher discriminatory power of this cgMLST scheme over that of conventional MLST. We also show that in terms of resolution, the performance of the
E. faecium
cgMLST scheme is equivalent to that of an SNP-based approach. In conclusion, the cgMLST scheme developed in this study facilitates rapid, standardized, and high-resolution tracing of
E. faecium
outbreaks.
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Ali L, Spiess M, Wobser D, Rodriguez M, Blum HE, Sakιnç T. Identification and functional characterization of the putative polysaccharide biosynthesis protein (CapD) of Enterococcus faecium U0317. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2015; 37:215-24. [PMID: 26611826 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2015.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2015] [Revised: 11/11/2015] [Accepted: 11/19/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Most bacterial species produce capsular polysaccharides that contribute to disease pathogenesis through evasion of the host innate immune system and are also involved in inhibiting leukocyte killing. In the present study, we identified a gene in Enterococcus faecium U0317 with homologies to the polysaccharide biosynthesis protein CapD that is made up of 336 amino acids and putatively catalyzes N-linked glycosylation. A capD deletion mutant was constructed and complemented by homologous recombination that was confirmed by PCR and sequencing. The mutant revealed different growth behavior and morphological changes compared to wild-type by scanning electron microscopy, also the capD mutant showed a strong hydrophobicity and that was reversed in the reconstituted mutant. For further characterization and functional analyses, in-vitro cell culture and in-vivo a mouse infection models were used. Antibodies directed against alpha lipotechoic acid (αLTA) and the peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase (αPpiC), effectively mediated the opsonophagocytic killing in the capD knock-out mutant, while this activity was not observed in the wild-type and reconstituted mutant. By comparison more than 2-fold decrease was seen in mutant colonization and adherence to both T24 and Caco2 cells. However, a significant higher bacterial colonization was observed in capD mutant during bacteremia in the animal model, while virulence in a mouse UTI (urinary tract infection) model, there were no obvious differences. Further studies are needed to elucidate the function of capsular polysaccharide synthesis gene clusters and its involvement in the disease pathogenesis with the aim to develop targeted therapies to treat multidrug-resistant E. faecium infections.
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- Liaqat Ali
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; Faculty of Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Schänzlestraße 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Faculty of Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Schänzlestraße 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Hugstetter Straße 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
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Lyons C, Raustad N, Bustos MA, Shiaris M. Incidence of Type II CRISPR1-Cas Systems in Enterococcus Is Species-Dependent. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0143544. [PMID: 26600384 PMCID: PMC4658022 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0143544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2015] [Accepted: 11/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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CRISPR-Cas systems, which obstruct both viral infection and incorporation of mobile genetic elements by horizontal transfer, are a specific immune response common to prokaryotes. Antiviral protection by CRISPR-Cas comes at a cost, as horizontally-acquired genes may increase fitness and provide rapid adaptation to habitat change. To date, investigations into the prevalence of CRISPR have primarily focused on pathogenic and clinical bacteria, while less is known about CRISPR dynamics in commensal and environmental species. We designed PCR primers and coupled these with DNA sequencing of products to detect and characterize the presence of cas1, a universal CRISPR-associated gene and proxy for the Type II CRISPR1-Cas system, in environmental and non-clinical Enterococcus isolates. CRISPR1-cas1 was detected in approximately 33% of the 275 strains examined, and differences in CRISPR1 carriage between species was significant. Incidence of cas1 in E. hirae was 73%, nearly three times that of E. faecalis (23.6%) and 10 times more frequent than in E. durans (7.1%). Also, this is the first report of CRISPR1 presence in E. durans, as well as in the plant-associated species E. casseliflavus and E. sulfureus. Significant differences in CRISPR1-cas1 incidence among Enterococcus species support the hypothesis that there is a tradeoff between protection and adaptability. The differences in the habitats of enterococcal species may exert varying selective pressure that results in a species-dependent distribution of CRISPR-Cas systems.
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- Casandra Lyons
- Biology Department, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Biology Department, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Biology Department, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Biology Department, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Sinnige JC, de Been M, Zhou M, Bonten MJM, Willems RJL, Top J. Growth condition-dependent cell surface proteome analysis of Enterococcus faecium. Proteomics 2015; 15:3806-14. [PMID: 26316380 DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201500138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2015] [Revised: 07/16/2015] [Accepted: 08/24/2015] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The last 30 years Enterococcus faecium has become an important nosocomial pathogen in hospitals worldwide. The aim of this study was to obtain insight in the cell surface proteome of E. faecium when grown in laboratory and clinically relevant conditions. Enterococcus faecium E1162, a clinical blood stream isolate, was grown until mid-log phase in brain heart infusion medium (BHI) with, or without 0.02% bile salts, Tryptic Soy Broth with 1% glucose (TSBg) and urine, and its cell surface was "shaved" using immobilized trypsin. Peptides were identified using MS/MS. Mapping against the translated E1162 whole genome sequence identified 67 proteins that were differentially detected in different conditions. In urine, 14 proteins were significantly more and nine proteins less abundant relative to the other conditions. Growth in BHI-bile and TSBg, revealed four and six proteins, respectively, which were uniquely present in these conditions while two proteins were uniquely present in both conditions. Thus, proteolytic shaving of E. faecium cells identified differentially surface exposed proteins in different growth conditions. These proteins are of special interest as they provide more insight in the adaptive mechanisms and may serve as targets for the development of novel therapeutics against this multi-resistant emerging pathogen. All MS data have been deposited in the ProteomeXchange with identifier PXD002497 (http://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org/dataset/PXD002497).
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- Jan C Sinnige
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,Fungal Molecular Physiology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Bakunina IY, Balabanova LA, Pennacchio A, Trincone A. Hooked on α-d-galactosidases: from biomedicine to enzymatic synthesis. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2015; 36:233-45. [PMID: 25394540 DOI: 10.3109/07388551.2014.949618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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α-d-Galactosidases (EC 3.2.1.22) are enzymes employed in a number of useful bio-based applications. We have depicted a comprehensive general survey of α-d-galactosidases from different origin with special emphasis on marine example(s). The structures of natural α-galactosyl containing compounds are described. In addition to 3D structures and mechanisms of action of α-d-galactosidases, different sources, natural function and genetic regulation are also covered. Finally, hydrolytic and synthetic exploitations as free or immobilized biocatalysts are reviewed. Interest in the synthetic aspects during the next years is anticipated for access to important small molecules by green technology with an emphasis on alternative selectivity of this class of enzymes from different sources.
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- Irina Yu Bakunina
- a G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences , Vladivostok , Russia and
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- a G.B. Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences , Vladivostok , Russia and
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- b Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Pozzuoli , Napoli , Italy
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- b Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Pozzuoli , Napoli , Italy
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Distinct SagA from Hospital-Associated Clade A1 Enterococcus faecium Strains Contributes to Biofilm Formation. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015. [PMID: 26209668 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01716-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Enterococcus faecium is an important nosocomial pathogen causing biofilm-mediated infections. Elucidation of E. faecium biofilm pathogenesis is pivotal for the development of new strategies to treat these infections. In several bacteria, extracellular DNA (eDNA) and proteins act as matrix components contributing to biofilm development. In this study, we investigated biofilm formation capacity and the roles of eDNA and secreted proteins for 83 E. faecium strains with different phylogenetic origins that clustered in clade A1 and clade B. Although there was no significant difference in biofilm formation between E. faecium strains from these two clades, the addition of DNase I or proteinase K to biofilms demonstrated that eDNA is essential for biofilm formation in most E. faecium strains, whereas proteolysis impacted primarily biofilms of E. faecium clade A1 strains. Secreted antigen A (SagA) was the most abundant protein in biofilms from E. faecium clade A1 and B strains, although its localization differed between the two groups. sagA was present in all sequenced E. faecium strains, with a consistent difference in the repeat region between the clades, which correlated with the susceptibility of biofilms to proteinase K. This indicates an association between the SagA variable repeat profile and the localization and contribution of SagA in E. faecium biofilms.
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Zhang S, Wang D, Wang Y, Hasman H, Aarestrup FM, Alwathnani HA, Zhu YG, Rensing C. Genome sequences of copper resistant and sensitive Enterococcus faecalis strains isolated from copper-fed pigs in Denmark. Stand Genomic Sci 2015. [PMID: 26203344 PMCID: PMC4511184 DOI: 10.1186/s40793-015-0021-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Six strains of Enterococcus faecalis (S1, S12, S17, S18, S19 and S32) were isolated from copper fed pigs in Denmark. These Gram-positive bacteria within the genus Enterococcus are able to survive a variety of physical and chemical challenges by the acquisition of diverse genetic elements. The genome of strains S1, S12, S17, S18, S19 and S32 contained 2,615, 2,769, 2,625, 2,804, 2,853 and 2,935 protein-coding genes, with 41, 42, 27, 42, 32 and 44 genes encoding antibiotic and metal resistance, respectively. Differences between Cu resistant and sensitive E. faecalis strains, and possible co-transfer of Cu and antibiotic resistance determinants were detected through comparative genome analysis.
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- Siyu Zhang
- Department of Plant and Environmental Science, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark ; State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Sciences and Technology, HuaZhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Science, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Botany and Microbiology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China ; Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China
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- Department of Plant and Environmental Science, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark ; Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China
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Moemen D, Tawfeek D, Badawy W. Healthcare-associated vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium infections in the Mansoura University Hospitals intensive care units, Egypt. Braz J Microbiol 2015; 46:777-83. [PMID: 26413060 PMCID: PMC4568866 DOI: 10.1590/s1517-838246320140403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2014] [Accepted: 12/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) ia an emerging and challenging nosocomial pathogen. This study aimed to determine the prevalence, risk factors and clonal relationships between different VREF isolates in the intensive care units (ICUs) of the university hospitals in our geographic location. This prospective study was conducted from July, 2012 until September, 2013 on 781 patients who were admitted to the ICUs of the Mansoura University Hospitals (MUHs), and fulfilled the healthcare-associated infection (HAI) criteria. Susceptibility testing was determined using the disk diffusion method. The clonal relationships were evaluated with pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Out of 52 E. faecium isolates, 12 (23.1%) were vancomycin resistant. The significant risk factors for the VREF infections were: transfer to the ICU from a ward, renal failure, an extended ICU stay and use of third-generation cephalosporins, gentamicin, or ciprofloxacin. PFGE with the 12 isolates showed 9 different patterns; 3 belonged to the same pulsotype and another 2 carried a second pulsotypes. The similar pulsotypes isolates were isolated from ICUs of one hospital (EICUs); however, all of the isolates from the other ICUs had different patterns. Infection control policy, in conjunction with antibiotic stewardship, is important to combat VREF transmission in these high-risk patients.
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- Dalia Moemen
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
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Molecular characterization of resistance, virulence and clonality in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis : A hospital-based study in Beijing, China. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2015; 33:253-60. [DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2015.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2015] [Revised: 05/10/2015] [Accepted: 05/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Rouli L, Merhej V, Fournier PE, Raoult D. The bacterial pangenome as a new tool for analysing pathogenic bacteria. New Microbes New Infect 2015; 7:72-85. [PMID: 26442149 PMCID: PMC4552756 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmni.2015.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2015] [Accepted: 06/16/2015] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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The bacterial pangenome was introduced in 2005 and, in recent years, has been the subject of many studies. Thanks to progress in next-generation sequencing methods, the pangenome can be divided into two parts, the core (common to the studied strains) and the accessory genome, offering a large panel of uses. In this review, we have presented the analysis methods, the pangenome composition and its application as a study of lifestyle. We have also shown that the pangenome may be used as a new tool for redefining the pathogenic species. We applied this to the Escherichia coli and Shigella species, which have been a subject of controversy regarding their taxonomic and pathogenic position. Pangenome is a new way of studying pathogenic bacteria. Pangenome can be used as a taxonomic tool. This review describes pangenome in the world of pathogenic bacteria.
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- L Rouli
- Aix Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, 13005 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, 13005 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, 13005 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Université, URMITE, UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, 13005 Marseille, France
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Kodali S, Vinogradov E, Lin F, Khoury N, Hao L, Pavliak V, Jones CH, Laverde D, Huebner J, Jansen KU, Anderson AS, Donald RGK. A Vaccine Approach for the Prevention of Infections by Multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:19512-26. [PMID: 26109072 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.655852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The incidence of multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium hospital infections has been steadily increasing. With the goal of discovering new vaccine antigens, we systematically fractionated and purified four distinct surface carbohydrates from E. faecium endocarditis isolate Tx16, shown previously to be resistant to phagocytosis in the presence of human serum. The two most abundant polysaccharides consist of novel branched heteroglycan repeating units that include signature sugars altruronic acid and legionaminic acid, respectively. A minor high molecular weight polysaccharide component was recognized as the fructose homopolymer levan, and a glucosylated lipoteichoic acid (LTA) was identified in a micellar fraction. The polysaccharides were conjugated to the CRM197 carrier protein, and the resulting glycoconjugates were used to immunize rabbits. Rabbit immune sera were evaluated for their ability to kill Tx16 in opsonophagocytic assays and in a mouse passive protection infection model. Although antibodies raised against levan failed to mediate opsonophagocytic killing, the other glycoconjugates induced effective opsonic antibodies, with the altruronic acid-containing polysaccharide antisera showing the greatest opsonophagocytic assay activity. Antibodies directed against either novel heteroglycan or the LTA reduced bacterial load in mouse liver or kidney tissue. To assess antigen prevalence, we screened a diverse collection of blood isolates (n = 101) with antibodies to the polysaccharides. LTA was detected on the surface of 80% of the strains, and antigens recognized by antibodies to the two major heteroglycans were co-expressed on 63% of these clinical isolates. Collectively, these results represent the first steps toward identifying components of a glycoconjugate vaccine to prevent E. faecium infection.
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- Srinivas Kodali
- From Pfizer Vaccine Research and Early Development, Pearl River, New York 10654
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- From Pfizer Vaccine Research and Early Development, Pearl River, New York 10654
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- From Pfizer Vaccine Research and Early Development, Pearl River, New York 10654
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- From Pfizer Vaccine Research and Early Development, Pearl River, New York 10654
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- From Pfizer Vaccine Research and Early Development, Pearl River, New York 10654
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- From Pfizer Vaccine Research and Early Development, Pearl River, New York 10654
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- the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany, and
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- the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany, and the Department of Pediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Lindwurmstrasse 4, 80338 Munich, Germany
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- From Pfizer Vaccine Research and Early Development, Pearl River, New York 10654
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- From Pfizer Vaccine Research and Early Development, Pearl River, New York 10654,
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Mikalsen T, Pedersen T, Willems R, Coque TM, Werner G, Sadowy E, van Schaik W, Jensen LB, Sundsfjord A, Hegstad K. Investigating the mobilome in clinically important lineages of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:282. [PMID: 25885771 PMCID: PMC4438569 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1407-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2014] [Accepted: 02/27/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The success of Enterococcus faecium and E. faecalis evolving as multi-resistant nosocomial pathogens is associated with their ability to acquire and share adaptive traits, including antimicrobial resistance genes encoded by mobile genetic elements (MGEs). Here, we investigate this mobilome in successful hospital associated genetic lineages, E. faecium sequence type (ST)17 (n=10) and ST78 (n=10), E. faecalis ST6 (n=10) and ST40 (n=10) by DNA microarray analyses. RESULTS The hybridization patterns of 272 representative targets including plasmid backbones (n=85), transposable elements (n=85), resistance determinants (n=67), prophages (n=29) and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-cas sequences (n=6) separated the strains according to species, and for E. faecalis also according to STs. RCR-, Rep_3-, RepA_N- and Inc18-family plasmids were highly prevalent and with the exception of Rep_3, evenly distributed between the species. There was a considerable difference in the replicon profile, with rep 17/pRUM , rep 2/pRE25 , rep 14/EFNP1 and rep 20/pLG1 dominating in E. faecium and rep 9/pCF10 , rep 2/pRE25 and rep 7 in E. faecalis strains. We observed an overall high correlation between the presence and absence of genes coding for resistance towards antibiotics, metals, biocides and their corresponding MGEs as well as their phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility pattern. Although most IS families were represented in both E. faecalis and E. faecium, specific IS elements within these families were distributed in only one species. The prevalence of IS256-, IS3-, ISL3-, IS200/IS605-, IS110-, IS982- and IS4-transposases was significantly higher in E. faecium than E. faecalis, and that of IS110-, IS982- and IS1182-transposases in E. faecalis ST6 compared to ST40. Notably, the transposases of IS981, ISEfm1 and IS1678 that have only been reported in few enterococcal isolates were well represented in the E. faecium strains. E. faecalis ST40 strains harboured possible functional CRISPR-Cas systems, and still resistance and prophage sequences were generally well represented. CONCLUSIONS The targeted MGEs were highly prevalent among the selected STs, underlining their potential importance in the evolution of hospital-adapted lineages of enterococci. Although the propensity of inter-species horizontal gene transfer (HGT) must be emphasized, the considerable species-specificity of these MGEs indicates a separate vertical evolution of MGEs within each species, and for E. faecalis within each ST.
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- Theresa Mikalsen
- Research group for Host-microbe Interactions, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Science, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
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- Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Servicio de Microbiologia, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain. .,Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBER-ESP), Madrid, Spain.
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- Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Wernigerode, Germany.
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- Department of Molecular Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, ul, Chełmska 30/34, 00-725, Warsaw, Poland.
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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- Division of Food Microbiologyt, National Food Institute, Danish Technical University, Copenhagen V, Denmark.
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- Research group for Host-microbe Interactions, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Science, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. .,Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
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- Research group for Host-microbe Interactions, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Science, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. .,Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway.
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Zischka M, Künne CT, Blom J, Wobser D, Sakιnç T, Schmidt-Hohagen K, Dabrowski PW, Nitsche A, Hübner J, Hain T, Chakraborty T, Linke B, Goesmann A, Voget S, Daniel R, Schomburg D, Hauck R, Hafez HM, Tielen P, Jahn D, Solheim M, Sadowy E, Larsen J, Jensen LB, Ruiz-Garbajosa P, Quiñones Pérez D, Mikalsen T, Bender J, Steglich M, Nübel U, Witte W, Werner G. Comprehensive molecular, genomic and phenotypic analysis of a major clone of Enterococcus faecalis MLST ST40. BMC Genomics 2015; 16:175. [PMID: 25887115 PMCID: PMC4374294 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1367-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2014] [Accepted: 02/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Background Enterococcus faecalis is a multifaceted microorganism known to act as a beneficial intestinal commensal bacterium. It is also a dreaded nosocomial pathogen causing life-threatening infections in hospitalised patients. Isolates of a distinct MLST type ST40 represent the most frequent strain type of this species, distributed worldwide and originating from various sources (animal, human, environmental) and different conditions (colonisation/infection). Since enterococci are known to be highly recombinogenic we determined to analyse the microevolution and niche adaptation of this highly distributed clonal type. Results We compared a set of 42 ST40 isolates by assessing key molecular determinants, performing whole genome sequencing (WGS) and a number of phenotypic assays including resistance profiling, formation of biofilm and utilisation of carbon sources. We generated the first circular closed reference genome of an E. faecalis isolate D32 of animal origin and compared it with the genomes of other reference strains. D32 was used as a template for detailed WGS comparisons of high-quality draft genomes of 14 ST40 isolates. Genomic and phylogenetic analyses suggest a high level of similarity regarding the core genome, also demonstrated by similar carbon utilisation patterns. Distribution of known and putative virulence-associated genes did not differentiate between ST40 strains from a commensal and clinical background or an animal or human source. Further analyses of mobile genetic elements (MGE) revealed genomic diversity owed to: (1) a modularly structured pathogenicity island; (2) a site-specifically integrated and previously unknown genomic island of 138 kb in two strains putatively involved in exopolysaccharide synthesis; and (3) isolate-specific plasmid and phage patterns. Moreover, we used different cell-biological and animal experiments to compare the isolate D32 with a closely related ST40 endocarditis isolate whose draft genome sequence was also generated. D32 generally showed a greater capacity of adherence to human cell lines and an increased pathogenic potential in various animal models in combination with an even faster growth in vivo (not in vitro). Conclusion Molecular, genomic and phenotypic analysis of representative isolates of a major clone of E. faecalis MLST ST40 revealed new insights into the microbiology of a commensal bacterium which can turn into a conditional pathogen. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12864-015-1367-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Melanie Zischka
- Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances, Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Burgstr. 37, D-38855, Wernigerode, Germany. .,Present address: Institute for Pathology, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover, Germany.
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- Functional Genomics of Bacterial Pathogens, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Justus Liebig University Giessen and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Giessen-Marburg-Langen, Campus Giessen, Giessen, Germany. .,Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
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- Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec)/University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. .,Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
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- Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
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- Robert Koch Institute, ZBS 1 Highly Pathogenic Viruses, Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Berlin, Germany.
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- Robert Koch Institute, ZBS 1 Highly Pathogenic Viruses, Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens, Berlin, Germany.
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. .,Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Hauner Children's Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany.
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- Functional Genomics of Bacterial Pathogens, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Justus Liebig University Giessen and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Giessen-Marburg-Langen, Campus Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
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- Functional Genomics of Bacterial Pathogens, Institute for Medical Microbiology, Justus Liebig University Giessen and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Giessen-Marburg-Langen, Campus Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
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- Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec)/University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. .,Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
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- Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec)/University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. .,Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
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- Goettingen Genomics Laboratory, Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany.
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- Goettingen Genomics Laboratory, Georg August University, Goettingen, Germany.
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- Institute for Biochemistry, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Institute for Poultry Diseases, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Institute for Poultry Diseases, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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- Institute for Microbiology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
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- Institute for Microbiology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
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- Laboratory of Microbial Gene Technology and Food Microbiology, The Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway.
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- National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
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- Division of Microbiology, National Food Institute, Danish Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Instituto de Medicina Tropical Pedro Kourí, Servicio de Bacteriología-Micología, La Habana, Cuba.
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- Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Research Group for Host Microbe Interactions, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway.
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- Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances, Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Burgstr. 37, D-38855, Wernigerode, Germany.
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- Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances, Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Burgstr. 37, D-38855, Wernigerode, Germany.
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- Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances, Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Burgstr. 37, D-38855, Wernigerode, Germany. .,Leibniz-Institut DSMZ - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikrorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany.
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- Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances, Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Burgstr. 37, D-38855, Wernigerode, Germany.
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- Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances, Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Burgstr. 37, D-38855, Wernigerode, Germany.
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Guridi A, Diederich AK, Aguila-Arcos S, Garcia-Moreno M, Blasi R, Broszat M, Schmieder W, Clauss-Lendzian E, Sakinc-Gueler T, Andrade R, Alkorta I, Meyer C, Landau U, Grohmann E. New antimicrobial contact catalyst killing antibiotic resistant clinical and waterborne pathogens. MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING. C, MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 2015; 50:1-11. [PMID: 25746238 DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2015.01.080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2014] [Revised: 12/21/2014] [Accepted: 01/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Microbial growth on medical and technical devices is a big health issue, particularly when microorganisms aggregate to form biofilms. Moreover, the occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the clinical environment is dramatically growing, making treatment of bacterial infections very challenging. In search of an alternative, we studied a novel antimicrobial surface coating based on micro galvanic elements formed by silver and ruthenium with surface catalytic properties. The antimicrobial coating efficiently inhibited the growth of the nosocomial pathogens Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium as demonstrated by the growth inhibition on agar surface and in biofilms of antibiotic resistant clinical E. faecalis, E. faecium, and S. aureus isolates. It also strongly reduced the growth of Legionella in a drinking water pipeline and of Escherichia coli in urine. We postulate a mode of action of the antimicrobial material, which is independent of the release of silver ions. Thus, the novel antimicrobial coating could represent an alternative to combat microbial growth avoiding the toxic side effects of high levels of silver ions on eukaryotic cells.
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- A Guridi
- Biophysics Unit (CSIC, UPV/EHU), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country, 48940 Leioa, Spain
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- University Medical Center Freiburg, Division of Infectious Diseases, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; Biology II, Microbiology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Biophysics Unit (CSIC, UPV/EHU), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country, 48940 Leioa, Spain
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- Biophysics Unit (CSIC, UPV/EHU), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country, 48940 Leioa, Spain
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- University Medical Center Freiburg, Division of Infectious Diseases, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; Biology II, Microbiology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- University Medical Center Freiburg, Division of Infectious Diseases, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; Biology II, Microbiology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Biology II, Microbiology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Biology II, Microbiology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- University Medical Center Freiburg, Division of Infectious Diseases, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
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- Advanced Research Facilities (SGIker), University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, 48940 Leioa, Spain
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- Biophysics Unit (CSIC, UPV/EHU), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country, 48940 Leioa, Spain
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- Largentec GmbH, Am Waldhaus 32, 14129 Berlin, Germany
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- Largentec GmbH, Am Waldhaus 32, 14129 Berlin, Germany
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- Biophysics Unit (CSIC, UPV/EHU), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Basque Country, 48940 Leioa, Spain; University Medical Center Freiburg, Division of Infectious Diseases, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; Biology II, Microbiology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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Ramos S, Chafsey I, Silva N, Hébraud M, Santos H, Capelo-Martinez JL, Poeta P, Igrejas G. Effect of vancomycin on the proteome of the multiresistant Enterococcus faecium SU18 strain. J Proteomics 2015; 113:378-87. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2014.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2014] [Revised: 10/03/2014] [Accepted: 10/20/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Vernikos G, Medini D, Riley DR, Tettelin H. Ten years of pan-genome analyses. Curr Opin Microbiol 2014; 23:148-54. [PMID: 25483351 DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2014.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 313] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2014] [Revised: 11/19/2014] [Accepted: 11/20/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Next generation sequencing technologies have engendered a genome sequence data deluge in public databases. Genome analyses have transitioned from single or few genomes to hundreds to thousands of genomes. Pan-genome analyses provide a framework for estimating the genomic diversity of the dataset at hand and predicting the number of additional whole genomes sequences that would be necessary to fully characterize that diversity. We review recent implementations of the pan-genome approach, its impact and limits, and we propose possible extensions, including analyses at the whole genome multiple sequence alignment level.
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- George Vernikos
- Novartis (Hellas) S.A.C.I., 12th Km Athens-Lamia North Road, 14451 Metamorfossi, Athens, Greece
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- Novartis Vaccines Research, Via Fiorentina 1, 53100 Siena, Italy
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 801 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 801 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
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Fournier PE, Dubourg G, Raoult D. Clinical detection and characterization of bacterial pathogens in the genomics era. Genome Med 2014; 6:114. [PMID: 25593594 PMCID: PMC4295418 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-014-0114-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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The availability of genome sequences obtained using next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized the field of infectious diseases. Indeed, more than 38,000 bacterial and 5,000 viral genomes have been sequenced to date, including representatives of all significant human pathogens. These tremendous amounts of data have not only enabled advances in fundamental biology, helping to understand the pathogenesis of microorganisms and their genomic evolution, but have also had implications for clinical microbiology. Here, we first review the current achievements of genomics in the development of improved diagnostic tools, including those that are now available in the clinic, such as the design of PCR assays for the detection of microbial pathogens, virulence factors or antibiotic-resistance determinants, or the design of optimized culture media for 'unculturable' pathogens. We then review the applications of genomics to the investigation of outbreaks, either through the design of genotyping assays or the direct sequencing of the causative strains. Finally, we discuss how genomics might change clinical microbiology in the future.
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- Pierre-Edouard Fournier
- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63, CNRS7278, IRD198, InsermU1095, Institut hospitalo-universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Aix-Marseille University, Faculté de Medecine, 27 Blvd Jean Moulin, Marseille, 13385, cedex 5 France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63, CNRS7278, IRD198, InsermU1095, Institut hospitalo-universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Aix-Marseille University, Faculté de Medecine, 27 Blvd Jean Moulin, Marseille, 13385, cedex 5 France
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- Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UM63, CNRS7278, IRD198, InsermU1095, Institut hospitalo-universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Aix-Marseille University, Faculté de Medecine, 27 Blvd Jean Moulin, Marseille, 13385, cedex 5 France
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Chabros L, Szymanek-Majchrzak K, Mlynarczyk A, Sawicka-Grzelak A, Durlik M, Paczek L, Chmura A, Mlynarczyk G. Evaluation of the prevalence of insertion element IS16 in vancomycin-resistant enterococci strains of Enterococcus faecium isolated from transplantology patients from a Warsaw Hospital between 2010 and 2012. Transplant Proc 2014; 46:2583-5. [PMID: 25380871 DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2014.08.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The study included 79 vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) strains isolated from 33 patients after kidney (n = 19) or liver (n = 14) transplantation; these patients were hospitalized between 2010 and 2012. The strains were obtained from infected persons as well as from carriers. All examined strains were tested for the susceptibility to antimicrobials active against enterococci and for the presence of vanA and vanB genes as well as the presence of the insertion sequence IS16 considered as one of the markers of hospital-associated strains. All 79 VRE strains of E faecium possessed IS16 and the vanA (vanB-negative) determinant. All tested strains were resistant to at least three groups of drugs; therefore, they were recognized as multidrug resistant. All isolates were resistant to glycopeptides, ampicillin, and most were resistant to tetracyclines, macrolides, nitrofurans, and high concentrations of aminoglycosides. The presence of insertion element IS16 and multiple resistance determinants prove that strains colonizing or infecting solid organ recipients were typical nosocomial pathogens.
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- L Chabros
- Department of Medical Microbiology, The Infant Jesus Teaching Hospital (IJTH) in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, The Infant Jesus Teaching Hospital (IJTH) in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, The Infant Jesus Teaching Hospital (IJTH) in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Dental Microbiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, The Infant Jesus Teaching Hospital (IJTH) in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, The Infant Jesus Teaching Hospital (IJTH) in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Transplant Medicine and Nephrology, Transplantology Institute, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, The Infant Jesus Teaching Hospital (IJTH) in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Immunology, Transplantology and Internal Diseases, Transplantology Institute, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, The Infant Jesus Teaching Hospital (IJTH) in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, Transplantology Institute, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, The Infant Jesus Teaching Hospital (IJTH) in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
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The Enterococcus genus comprises over 50 species that live as commensal bacteria in the gastrointestinal (GI) tracts of insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals. Named "entero" to emphasize their intestinal habitat, Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium were first isolated in the early 1900s and are the most abundant species of this genus found in the human fecal microbiota. In the past 3 decades, enterococci have developed increased resistance to several classes of antibiotics and emerged as a prevalent causative agent of health care-related infections. In U.S. hospitals, antibiotic use has increased the transmission of multidrug-resistant enterococci. Antibiotic treatment depletes broad communities of commensal microbes from the GI tract, allowing resistant enterococci to densely colonize the gut. The reestablishment of a diverse intestinal microbiota is an emerging approach to combat infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the GI tract. Because enterococci exist as commensals, modifying the intestinal microbiome to eliminate enterococcal clinical pathogens poses a challenge. To better understand how enterococci exist as both commensals and pathogens, in this article we discuss their clinical importance, antibiotic resistance, diversity in genomic composition and habitats, and interaction with the intestinal microbiome that may be used to prevent clinical infection.
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Repizo GD, Espariz M, Blancato VS, Suárez CA, Esteban L, Magni C. Genomic comparative analysis of the environmental Enterococcus mundtii against enterococcal representative species. BMC Genomics 2014; 15:489. [PMID: 24942651 PMCID: PMC4076982 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2013] [Accepted: 06/02/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background Enterococcus mundtii is a yellow-pigmented microorganism rarely found in human infections. The draft genome sequence of E. mundtii was recently announced. Its genome encodes at least 2,589 genes and 57 RNAs, and 4 putative genomic islands have been detected. The objective of this study was to compare the genetic content of E. mundtii with respect to other enterococcal species and, more specifically, to identify genes coding for putative virulence traits present in enterococcal opportunistic pathogens. Results An in-depth mining of the annotated genome was performed in order to uncover the unique properties of this microorganism, which allowed us to detect a gene encoding the antimicrobial peptide mundticin among other relevant features. Moreover, in this study a comparative genomic analysis against commensal and pathogenic enterococcal species, for which genomic sequences have been released, was conducted for the first time. Furthermore, our study reveals significant similarities in gene content between this environmental isolate and the selected enterococci strains (sharing an “enterococcal gene core” of 805 CDS), which contributes to understand the persistence of this genus in different niches and also improves our knowledge about the genetics of this diverse group of microorganisms that includes environmental, commensal and opportunistic pathogens. Conclusion Although E. mundtii CRL1656 is phylogenetically closer to E. faecium, frequently responsible of nosocomial infections, this strain does not encode the most relevant relevant virulence factors found in the enterococcal clinical isolates and bioinformatic predictions indicate that it possesses the lowest number of putative pathogenic genes among the most representative enterococcal species. Accordingly, infection assays using the Galleria mellonella model confirmed its low virulence. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-489) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario (IBR-CONICET) and Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, Rosario S2002LRK, Argentina.
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Insufficient discriminatory power of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry for typing of Enterococcus faecium and Staphylococcus aureus isolates. J Microbiol Methods 2014; 100:58-69. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2014.02.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2014] [Revised: 02/24/2014] [Accepted: 02/24/2014] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Louwen R, Staals RHJ, Endtz HP, van Baarlen P, van der Oost J. The role of CRISPR-Cas systems in virulence of pathogenic bacteria. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2014; 78:74-88. [PMID: 24600041 PMCID: PMC3957734 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00039-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 174] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated (Cas) genes are present in many bacterial and archaeal genomes. Since the discovery of the typical CRISPR loci in the 1980s, well before their physiological role was revealed, their variable sequences have been used as a complementary typing tool in diagnostic, epidemiologic, and evolutionary analyses of prokaryotic strains. The discovery that CRISPR spacers are often identical to sequence fragments of mobile genetic elements was a major breakthrough that eventually led to the elucidation of CRISPR-Cas as an adaptive immunity system. Key elements of this unique prokaryotic defense system are small CRISPR RNAs that guide nucleases to complementary target nucleic acids of invading viruses and plasmids, generally followed by the degradation of the invader. In addition, several recent studies have pointed at direct links of CRISPR-Cas to regulation of a range of stress-related phenomena. An interesting example concerns a pathogenic bacterium that possesses a CRISPR-associated ribonucleoprotein complex that may play a dual role in defense and/or virulence. In this review, we describe recently reported cases of potential involvement of CRISPR-Cas systems in bacterial stress responses in general and bacterial virulence in particular.
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Hendrickx APA, van Schaik W, Willems RJL. The cell wall architecture of Enterococcus faecium: from resistance to pathogenesis. Future Microbiol 2014; 8:993-1010. [PMID: 23902146 DOI: 10.2217/fmb.13.66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria functions as a surface organelle that continuously interacts with its environment through a plethora of cell wall-associated molecules. Enterococcus faecium is a normal inhabitant of the GI tract of mammals, but has recently become an important etiological agent of hospital-acquired infections in debilitated patients. Insights into the assembly and function of enterococcal cell wall components and their interactions with the host during colonization and infection are essential to explain the worldwide emergence of E. faecium as an important multiantibiotic-resistant nosocomial pathogen. Understanding the biochemistry of cell wall biogenesis and principles of antibiotic resistance at the molecular level may open up new frontiers in research on enterococci, particularly for the development of novel antimicrobial strategies. In this article, we outline the current knowledge on the most important antimicrobial resistance mechanisms that involve peptidoglycan synthesis and the role of cell wall constituents, including lipoteichoic acid, wall teichoic acid, capsular polysaccharides, LPxTG cell wall-anchored surface proteins, WxL-type surface proteins and pili, in the pathogenesis of E. faecium.
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- Antoni P A Hendrickx
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Draft Genome Sequence of Enterococcus faecium PC4.1, a Clade B Strain Isolated from Human Feces. GENOME ANNOUNCEMENTS 2014; 2:2/1/e00022-14. [PMID: 24503986 PMCID: PMC3916480 DOI: 10.1128/genomea.00022-14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Enterococcus faecium is commonly isolated from the human gastrointestinal tract; however, important intraspecies variations exist with relevance for host health and well-being. Here, we describe the draft genome sequence of E. faecium PC4.1, a clade B strain isolated from human feces.
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de Been M, van Schaik W, Cheng L, Corander J, Willems RJ. Recent recombination events in the core genome are associated with adaptive evolution in Enterococcus faecium. Genome Biol Evol 2013; 5:1524-35. [PMID: 23882129 PMCID: PMC3762198 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Reasons for the rising clinical impact of the bacterium Enterococcus faecium include the species' rapid acquisition of adaptive genetic elements. Here, we focused on the impact of recombination on the evolution of E. faecium. We used the recently developed BratNextGen algorithm to detect recombinant regions in the core genome of 34 E. faecium strains, including three newly sequenced clinical strains. Recombination was found to have a significant impact on the E. faecium genome: of the original 1.2 million positions in the core genome, 0.5 million were predicted to have been affected by recombination in at least one strain. Importantly, strains in one of the two major E. faecium clades (clade B), which contains most of the E. faecium human gut commensals, formed the most important reservoir for donating foreign DNA to the second major E. faecium clade (clade A), which contains most of the clinical isolates. Also, several genomic regions were found to mainly recombine in specific hospital-associated E. faecium strains. One of these regions (the epa-like locus) likely encodes the biosynthesis of cell wall polysaccharides. These findings suggest a crucial role for recombination in the emergence of E. faecium as a successful hospital-associated pathogen.
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- Mark de Been
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Silveira E, Freitas AR, Antunes P, Barros M, Campos J, Coque TM, Peixe L, Novais C. Co-transfer of resistance to high concentrations of copper and first-line antibiotics among Enterococcus from different origins (humans, animals, the environment and foods) and clonal lineages. J Antimicrob Chemother 2013; 69:899-906. [DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkt479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Molecular analysis and distribution of multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates belonging to clonal complex 17 in a tertiary care center in Mexico City. BMC Microbiol 2013; 13:291. [PMID: 24330424 PMCID: PMC4029522 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-13-291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2013] [Accepted: 12/02/2013] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Enterococcus faecium has recently emerged as a multidrug-resistant nosocomial pathogen involved in outbreaks worldwide. A high rate of resistance to different antibiotics has been associated with virulent clonal complex 17 isolates carrying the esp and hyl genes and the purK1 allele. Results Twelve clinical vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) isolates were obtained from pediatric patients at the Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gómez (HIMFG). Among these VREF isolates, 58.3% (7/12) were recovered from urine, while 41.7% (5/12) were recovered from the bloodstream. The VREF isolates showed a 100% rate of resistance to ampicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanate, ciprofloxacin, clindamycin, chloramphenicol, streptomycin, gentamicin, rifampicin, erythromycin and teicoplanin. In addition, 16.7% (2/12) of the isolates were resistant to linezolid, and 66.7% (8/12) were resistant to tetracycline and doxycycline. PCR analysis revealed the presence of the vanA gene in all 12 VREF isolates, esp in 83.3% (10/12) of the isolates and hyl in 50% (6/12) of the isolates. Phylogenetic analysis via molecular typing was performed using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and demonstrated 44% similarity among the VREF isolates. MLST analysis identified four different sequence types (ST412, ST757, ST203 and ST612). Conclusion This study provides the first report of multidrug-resistant VREF isolates belonging to clonal complex 17 from a tertiary care center in Mexico City. Multidrug resistance and genetic determinants of virulence confer advantages among VREF in the colonization of their host. Therefore, the prevention and control of the spread of nosocomial infections caused by VREF is crucial for identifying new emergent subclones that could be challenging to treat in subsequent years.
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Scientific Opinion on the maintenance of the list of QPS biological agents intentionally added to food and feed (2013 update). EFSA J 2013. [DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Nonclinical and clinical Enterococcus faecium strains, but not Enterococcus faecalis strains, have distinct structural and functional genomic features. Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 80:154-65. [PMID: 24141120 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03108-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Certain strains of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis contribute beneficially to animal health and food production, while others are associated with nosocomial infections. To determine whether there are structural and functional genomic features that are distinct between nonclinical (NC) and clinical (CL) strains of those species, we analyzed the genomes of 31 E. faecium and 38 E. faecalis strains. Hierarchical clustering of 7,017 orthologs found in the E. faecium pangenome revealed that NC strains clustered into two clades and are distinct from CL strains. NC E. faecium genomes are significantly smaller than CL genomes, and this difference was partly explained by significantly fewer mobile genetic elements (ME), virulence factors (VF), and antibiotic resistance (AR) genes. E. faecium ortholog comparisons identified 68 and 153 genes that are enriched for NC and CL strains, respectively. Proximity analysis showed that CL-enriched loci, and not NC-enriched loci, are more frequently colocalized on the genome with ME. In CL genomes, AR genes are also colocalized with ME, and VF are more frequently associated with CL-enriched loci. Genes in 23 functional groups are also differentially enriched between NC and CL E. faecium genomes. In contrast, differences were not observed between NC and CL E. faecalis genomes despite their having larger genomes than E. faecium. Our findings show that unlike E. faecalis, NC and CL E. faecium strains are equipped with distinct structural and functional genomic features indicative of adaptation to different environments.
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ICESluvan, a 94-kilobase mosaic integrative conjugative element conferring interspecies transfer of VanB-type glycopeptide resistance, a novel bacitracin resistance locus, and a toxin-antitoxin stabilization system. J Bacteriol 2013; 195:5381-90. [PMID: 24078615 DOI: 10.1128/jb.02165-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A 94-kb integrative conjugative element (ICESluvan) transferable to Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis from an animal isolate of Streptococcus lutetiensis consists of a mosaic of genetic fragments from different Gram-positive bacteria. A variant of ICESluvan was confirmed in S. lutetiensis from a patient. A complete Tn5382/Tn1549 with a vanB2 operon is integrated into a streptococcal ICESde3396-like region harboring a putative bacteriophage exclusion system, a putative agglutinin receptor precursor, and key components of a type IV secretion system. Moreover, ICESluvan encodes a putative MobC family mobilization protein and a relaxase and, thus, in total has all genetic components essential for conjugative transfer. A 9-kb element within Tn5382/Tn1549 encodes, among others, putative proteins similar to the TnpX site-specific recombinase in Faecalibacterium and VanZ in Paenibacillus, which may contribute to the detected low-level teicoplanin resistance. Furthermore, ICESluvan encodes a novel bacitracin resistance locus that is associated with reduced susceptibility to bacitracin when transferred to E. faecium. The expression of a streptococcal pezAT toxin-antitoxin-encoding operon of ICESluvan in S. lutetiensis, E. faecium, and E. faecalis was confirmed by reverse transcription (RT)-PCR, indicating an active toxin-antitoxin system which may contribute to stabilizing ICESluvan within new hosts. Junction PCR and DNA sequencing confirmed that ICESluvan excised to form a circular intermediate in S. lutetiensis, E. faecalis, and E. faecium. Transfer between E. faecalis cells was observed in the presence of helper plasmid pIP964. Sequence analysis of the original S. lutetiensis donor and enterococcal transconjugants showed that ICESluvan integrates in a site-specific manner into the C-terminal end of the chromosomal tRNA methyltransferase gene rumA.
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Fhoula I, Najjari A, Turki Y, Jaballah S, Boudabous A, Ouzari H. Diversity and antimicrobial properties of lactic acid bacteria isolated from rhizosphere of olive trees and desert truffles of Tunisia. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2013; 2013:405708. [PMID: 24151598 PMCID: PMC3787589 DOI: 10.1155/2013/405708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2013] [Revised: 07/30/2013] [Accepted: 08/10/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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A total of 119 lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were isolated, by culture-dependant method, from rhizosphere samples of olive trees and desert truffles and evaluated for different biotechnological properties. Using the variability of the intergenic spacer 16S-23S and 16S rRNA gene sequences, the isolates were identified as the genera Lactococcus, Pediococcus, Lactobacillus, Weissella, and Enterococcus. All the strains showed proteolytic activity with variable rates 42% were EPS producers, while only 10% showed the ability to grow in 9% NaCl. In addition, a low rate of antibiotic resistance was detected among rhizospheric enterococci. Furthermore, a strong antibacterial activity against plant and/or pathogenic bacteria of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Pantoea agglomerans, Pseudomonas savastanoi, the food-borne Staphylococcus aureus, and Listeria monocytogenes was recorded. Antifungal activity evaluation showed that Botrytis cinerea was the most inhibited fungus followed by Penicillium expansum, Verticillium dahliae, and Aspergillus niger. Most of the active strains belonged to the genera Enterococcus and Weissella. This study led to suggest that environmental-derived LAB strains could be selected for technological application to control pathogenic bacteria and to protect food safety from postharvest deleterious microbiota.
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- Imene Fhoula
- Université de Tunis El Manar, Faculté des Science de Tunis, LR03ES03 Laboratoire Microorganismes et Biomolécules Actives, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia
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Škedelj V, Perdih A, Brvar M, Kroflič A, Dubbée V, Savage V, O'Neill AJ, Solmajer T, Bešter-Rogač M, Blanot D, Hugonnet JE, Magnet S, Arthur M, Mainardi JL, Stojan J, Zega A. Discovery of the first inhibitors of bacterial enzyme d-aspartate ligase from Enterococcus faecium (Aslfm). Eur J Med Chem 2013; 67:208-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2013.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2013] [Revised: 06/01/2013] [Accepted: 06/02/2013] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Tremblay CL, Charlebois A, Masson L, Archambault M. Characterization of hospital-associated lineages of ampicillin-resistant Enterococcus faecium from clinical cases in dogs and humans. Front Microbiol 2013; 4:245. [PMID: 23986753 PMCID: PMC3750202 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2013] [Accepted: 08/05/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Ampicillin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (ARE) has rapidly emerged worldwide and is one of the most important nosocomial pathogens. However, very few reports are available on ARE isolates from canine clinical cases. The objective of this study was to characterize ARE strains of canine clinical origin from a veterinary teaching hospital in Canada and to compare them with human strains. Ten ARE strains from dogs and humans were characterized by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), antibiotic susceptibility and biofilm activities, presence of rep-families, CRISPR-cas and putative virulence genes. All ARE strains (n = 10) were resistant to ciprofloxacin and lincomycin. Resistances to tetracycline (n = 6), macrolides (n = 6), and to high concentrations of gentamicin, kanamycin and streptomycin (n = 5) were also observed. Canine ARE isolates were found to be susceptible to vancomycin whereas resistance to this antibiotic was observed in human strains. Ampicillin resistance was linked to PBP5 showing mutations at 25 amino acid positions. Fluoroquinolone resistance was attributable to ParC, GyrA, and GyrB mutations. Data demonstrated that all canine ARE were acm (collagen binding protein)-positive and that most harbored the efaAfm gene, encoding for a cell wall adhesin. Biofilm formation was observed in two human strains but not in canine strains. Two to five rep-families were observed per strain but no CRISPR sequences were found. A total of six STs (1, 18, 65, 202, 205, and 803) were found with one belonging to a new ST (ST803). These STs were identical or closely related to human hospital-associated lineages. This report describes for the first time the characterization of canine ARE hospital-associated strains in Canada and also supports the importance of prudent antibiotic use in veterinary medicine to avoid zoonotic spread of canine ARE.
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- Cindy-Love Tremblay
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Montreal, CRIPA Research Group Quebec, QC, Canada
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