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Rehm C, Kolm C, Pleininger S, Heger F, Indra A, Reischer GH, Farnleitner AAH, Kirschner AKT. Vibrio cholerae-An emerging pathogen in Austrian bathing waters? Wien Klin Wochenschr 2023; 135:597-608. [PMID: 37530997 PMCID: PMC10651712 DOI: 10.1007/s00508-023-02241-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2023] [Accepted: 06/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/03/2023]
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Vibrio cholerae, an important human pathogen, is naturally occurring in specific aquatic ecosystems. With very few exceptions, only the cholera-toxigenic strains belonging to the serogroups O1 and O139 are responsible for severe cholera outbreaks with epidemic or pandemic potential. All other nontoxigenic, non-O1/non-O139 V. cholerae (NTVC) strains may cause various other diseases, such as mild to severe infections of the ears, of the gastrointestinal and urinary tracts as well as wound and bloodstream infections. Older, immunocompromised people and patients with specific preconditions have an elevated risk. In recent years, worldwide reports demonstrated that NTVC infections are on the rise, caused amongst others by elevated water temperatures due to global warming.The aim of this review is to summarize the knowledge gained during the past two decades on V. cholerae infections and its occurrence in bathing waters in Austria, with a special focus on the lake Neusiedler See. We investigated whether NTVC infections have increased and which specific environmental conditions favor the occurrence of NTVC. We present an overview of state of the art methods that are currently available for clinical and environmental diagnostics. A preliminary public health risk assessment concerning NTVC infections related to the Neusiedler See was established. In order to raise awareness of healthcare professionals for NTVC infections, typical symptoms, possible treatment options and the antibiotic resistance status of Austrian NTVC isolates are discussed.
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- Carmen Rehm
- Division Water Quality and Health, Karl-Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems, Austria
- Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology - Water Microbiology, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & Health
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- Division Water Quality and Health, Karl-Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems, Austria
- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & Health
- Institute for Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Research Group Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics 166/5/3, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, National Reference Centre for Vibrio cholerae, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, National Reference Centre for Vibrio cholerae, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, National Reference Centre for Vibrio cholerae, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Vienna, Austria
- Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & Health
- Institute for Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Research Group Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics 166/5/3, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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- Division Water Quality and Health, Karl-Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems, Austria
- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & Health
- Institute for Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Research Group Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics 166/5/3, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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- Division Water Quality and Health, Karl-Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems, Austria.
- Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology - Water Microbiology, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & Health, .
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Rehm C, Lippert K, Indra A, Kolarević S, Kračun‐Kolarević M, Leopold M, Steinbacher S, Schachner I, Campostrini L, Risslegger A, Farnleitner AH, Kolm C, Kirschner AK. First report on the occurrence of Vibrio cholerae nonO1/nonO139 in natural and artificial lakes and ponds in Serbia: Evidence for a long-distance transfer of strains and the presence of Vibrio paracholerae. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2023; 15:142-152. [PMID: 36779243 PMCID: PMC10103850 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.13136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/09/2022] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Vibrio cholerae are natural inhabitants of specific aquatic environments. Strains not belonging to serogroups O1 and O139 are usually unable to produce cholera toxin and cause cholera. However, non-toxigenic V. cholerae (NTVC) are able to cause a variety of mild-to-severe human infections (via seafood consumption or recreational activities). The number of unreported cases is considered substantial, as NTVC infections are not notifiable and physicians are mostly unaware of this pathogen. In the northern hemisphere, NTVC infections have been reported to increase due to global warming. In Eastern Europe, climatic and geological conditions favour the existence of inland water-bodies harbouring NTVC. We thus investigated the occurrence of NTVC in nine Serbian natural and artificial lakes and ponds, many of them used for fishing and bathing. With the exception of one highly saline lake, all investigated water-bodies harboured NTVC, ranging from 5.4 × 101 to 1.86 × 104 CFU and 4.5 × 102 to 5.6 × 106 genomic units per 100 ml. The maximum values observed were in the range of bathing waters in other countries, where infections have been reported. Interestingly, 7 out of 39 fully sequenced presumptive V. cholerae isolates were assigned as V. paracholerae, a recently described sister species of V. cholerae. Some clones and sublineages of both V. cholerae and V. paracholerae were shared by different environments indicating an exchange of strains over long distances. Important pathogenicity factors such as hlyA, toxR, and ompU were present in both species. Seasonal monitoring of ponds/lakes used for recreation in Serbia is thus recommended to be prepared for potential occurrence of infections promoted by climate change-induced rise in water temperatures.
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- Carmen Rehm
- Division Water Quality and Health, Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and MicrobiologyKarl Landsteiner University of Health SciencesKremsAustria
- Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology – Water MicrobiologyMedical University ViennaViennaAustria
- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & HealthAustria
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- Institute für Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Austrian Agency for Health and Food SafetyViennaAustria
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- Institute für Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Austrian Agency for Health and Food SafetyViennaAustria
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- Institute for Biological Research ¨Siniša Stanković¨, National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, Department for Hydroecology and Water ProtectionUniversity of BelgradeBelgradeSerbia
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- Institute for Biological Research ¨Siniša Stanković¨, National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, Department for Hydroecology and Water ProtectionUniversity of BelgradeBelgradeSerbia
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- Division Water Quality and Health, Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and MicrobiologyKarl Landsteiner University of Health SciencesKremsAustria
- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & HealthAustria
- Institute for Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Technische Universität WienViennaAustria
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- Division Water Quality and Health, Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and MicrobiologyKarl Landsteiner University of Health SciencesKremsAustria
- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & HealthAustria
- Institute for Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Technische Universität WienViennaAustria
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- Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology – Water MicrobiologyMedical University ViennaViennaAustria
- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & HealthAustria
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- Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology – Water MicrobiologyMedical University ViennaViennaAustria
- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & HealthAustria
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- Division Water Quality and Health, Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and MicrobiologyKarl Landsteiner University of Health SciencesKremsAustria
- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & HealthAustria
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- Division Water Quality and Health, Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and MicrobiologyKarl Landsteiner University of Health SciencesKremsAustria
- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & HealthAustria
- Institute for Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Technische Universität WienViennaAustria
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- Division Water Quality and Health, Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and MicrobiologyKarl Landsteiner University of Health SciencesKremsAustria
- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & HealthAustria
- Institute for Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering, Technische Universität WienViennaAustria
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- Division Water Quality and Health, Department of Physiology, Pharmacology and MicrobiologyKarl Landsteiner University of Health SciencesKremsAustria
- Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology – Water MicrobiologyMedical University ViennaViennaAustria
- Interuniversity Cooperation Centre Water & HealthAustria
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Environmental Reservoirs of Pathogenic Vibrio spp. and Their Role in Disease: The List Keeps Expanding. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2023; 1404:99-126. [PMID: 36792873 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22997-8_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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Vibrio species are natural inhabitants of aquatic environments and have complex interactions with the environment that drive the evolution of traits contributing to their survival. These traits may also contribute to their ability to invade or colonize animal and human hosts. In this review, we attempt to summarize the relationships of Vibrio spp. with other organisms in the aquatic environment and discuss how these interactions could potentially impact colonization of animal and human hosts.
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Floyd KA, Lee CK, Xian W, Nametalla M, Valentine A, Crair B, Zhu S, Hughes HQ, Chlebek JL, Wu DC, Hwan Park J, Farhat AM, Lomba CJ, Ellison CK, Brun YV, Campos-Gomez J, Dalia AB, Liu J, Biais N, Wong GCL, Yildiz FH. c-di-GMP modulates type IV MSHA pilus retraction and surface attachment in Vibrio cholerae. Nat Commun 2020; 11:1549. [PMID: 32214098 PMCID: PMC7096442 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15331-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2019] [Accepted: 03/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Biofilm formation by Vibrio cholerae facilitates environmental persistence, and hyperinfectivity within the host. Biofilm formation is regulated by 3',5'-cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP) and requires production of the type IV mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin (MSHA) pilus. Here, we show that the MSHA pilus is a dynamic extendable and retractable system, and its activity is directly controlled by c-di-GMP. The interaction between c-di-GMP and the ATPase MshE promotes pilus extension, whereas low levels of c-di-GMP correlate with enhanced retraction. Loss of retraction facilitated by the ATPase PilT increases near-surface roaming motility, and impairs initial surface attachment. However, prolonged retraction upon surface attachment results in reduced MSHA-mediated surface anchoring and increased levels of detachment. Our results indicate that c-di-GMP directly controls MshE activity, thus regulating MSHA pilus extension and retraction dynamics, and modulating V. cholerae surface attachment and colonization.
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- Kyle A Floyd
- Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California - Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., BioMed 245, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA
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- Departments of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California - Los Angeles, 420 Westwood Plaza, Room 5121 Engineering V, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Departments of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California - Los Angeles, 420 Westwood Plaza, Room 5121 Engineering V, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brooklyn College, Room 307NE, 2900 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY, 11210, USA
- CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brooklyn College, Room 307NE, 2900 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY, 11210, USA
- CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University, 840 West Campus Drive, Advanced Biosciences Center 211, West Haven, CT, 06516, USA
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University, 840 West Campus Drive, Advanced Biosciences Center 211, West Haven, CT, 06516, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington, 1001 East Third St., Jordan Hall 469A, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington, 1001 East Third St., Jordan Hall 469A, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California - Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., BioMed 245, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California - Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., BioMed 245, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA
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- Departments of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California - Los Angeles, 420 Westwood Plaza, Room 5121 Engineering V, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Departments of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California - Los Angeles, 420 Westwood Plaza, Room 5121 Engineering V, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington, 1001 East Third St., Jordan Hall 469A, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
- Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, 355 Thomas Laboratory, Washington Road, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, 2900, boulevard Édouard-Montpetit, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada
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- Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1918 University Blvd., MCLM 702, Birmingham, AL, 35233, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington, 1001 East Third St., Jordan Hall 469A, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA
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- Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University, 840 West Campus Drive, Advanced Biosciences Center 211, West Haven, CT, 06516, USA
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- Department of Biology, Brooklyn College, Room 307NE, 2900 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY, 11210, USA
- CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA
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- Departments of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California - Los Angeles, 420 Westwood Plaza, Room 5121 Engineering V, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California - Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., BioMed 245, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA.
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Brenzinger S, van der Aart LT, van Wezel GP, Lacroix JM, Glatter T, Briegel A. Structural and Proteomic Changes in Viable but Non-culturable Vibrio cholerae. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:793. [PMID: 31057510 PMCID: PMC6479200 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2018] [Accepted: 03/28/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Aquatic environments are reservoirs of the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae O1, which causes the acute diarrheal disease cholera. Upon low temperature or limited nutrient availability, the cells enter a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state. Characteristic of this state are an altered morphology, low metabolic activity, and lack of growth under standard laboratory conditions. Here, for the first time, the cellular ultrastructure of V. cholerae VBNC cells raised in natural waters was investigated using electron cryo-tomography. This was complemented by a comparison of the proteomes and the peptidoglycan composition of V. cholerae from LB overnight cultures and VBNC cells. The extensive remodeling of the VBNC cells was most obvious in the passive dehiscence of the cell envelope, resulting in improper embedment of flagella and pili. Only minor changes of the peptidoglycan and osmoregulated periplasmic glucans were observed. Active changes in VBNC cells included the production of cluster I chemosensory arrays and change of abundance of cluster II array proteins. Components involved in iron acquisition and storage, peptide import and arginine biosynthesis were overrepresented in VBNC cells, while enzymes of the central carbon metabolism were found at lower levels. Finally, several pathogenicity factors of V. cholerae were less abundant in the VBNC state, potentially limiting their infectious potential. This study gives unprecedented insight into the physiology of VBNC cells and the drastically altered presence of their metabolic and structural proteins.
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- Susanne Brenzinger
- Department of Microbial Biotechnology & Health, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Microbial Biotechnology & Health, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Microbial Biotechnology & Health, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, UMR CNRS 8576, Université de Lille Sciences et Technologies, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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- Facility for Bacterial Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry, Max-Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Microbial Biotechnology & Health, Institute of Biology Leiden, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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Genes Activated by Vibrio cholerae upon Exposure to Caenorhabditis elegans Reveal the Mannose-Sensitive Hemagglutinin To Be Essential for Colonization. mSphere 2018; 3:3/3/e00238-18. [PMID: 29794057 PMCID: PMC5967197 DOI: 10.1128/mspheredirect.00238-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/04/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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During its life cycle, the facultative human pathogen Vibrio cholerae, which is the causative agent of the diarrheal disease cholera, needs to adapt to a variety of different conditions, such as the human host or the aquatic environment. Importantly, cholera infections originate from the aquatic reservoir where V. cholerae persists between the outbreaks. In the aquatic environment, bacteria are constantly threatened by predatory protozoa and nematodes, but our knowledge of the response pathways and adaptation strategies of V. cholerae to such stressors is limited. Using a temporally controlled reporter system of transcription, we identified more than 100 genes of V. cholerae induced upon exposure to the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, which emerged recently as a valuable model for environmental predation during the aquatic lifestyle of V. cholerae Besides others, we identified and validated the genes encoding the mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin (MSHA) type IV pilus to be significantly induced upon exposure to the nematode. Subsequent analyses demonstrated that the mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin is crucial for attachment of V. cholerae in the pharynx of the worm and initiation of colonization, which results in growth retardation and developmental delay of C. elegans Thus, the surface adhesion factor MSHA could be linked to a fitness advantage of V. cholerae upon contact with bacterium-grazing nematodes.IMPORTANCE The waterborne diarrheal disease cholera is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae The facultative human pathogen persists as a natural inhabitant in the aquatic ecosystem between outbreaks. In contrast to the human host, V. cholerae requires a different set of genes to survive in this hostile environment. For example, predatory micrograzers are commonly found in the aquatic environment and use bacteria as a nutrient source, but knowledge of the interaction between bacterivorous grazers and V. cholerae is limited. In this study, we successfully adapted a genetic reporter technology and identified more than 100 genes activated by V. cholerae upon exposure to the bacterium-grazing nematode Caenorhabditis elegans This screen provides a first glimpse into responses and adaptational strategies of the bacterial pathogen against such natural predators. Subsequent phenotypic characterization revealed the mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin to be crucial for colonization of the worm, which causes developmental delay and growth retardation.
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Liu X, Zhao H, Cao W, Liu Y, Zhang C, Lan X, Peng S, Wen H, Ding J, Ma X. Bioinformatic prediction of the antigenic epitopes of recombinant ferritin of Echinococcus granulosus. Mol Med Rep 2015; 13:888-94. [PMID: 26648019 DOI: 10.3892/mmr.2015.4575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2014] [Accepted: 07/21/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Echinococcosis is a zoonotic parasitic disease affecting humans and other mammals, which is mainly caused Echinococcus at larval stages. It is predominantly endemic in Chinese pasture regions, including Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu and Ningxia. The aim of the present study was to predict the T‑ and B‑combined epitopes of Echinococcus granulosus (Eg). ferritin, and to analyze its secondary structure using online software. Prediction of the T‑ and B‑combined epitopes of Eg. ferritin was performed using IEDB, SYFPEITHI and LEPS software, which are used to identify common areas of T‑ and B‑cells. The results of the present study identified several potential antigenic epitopes of Eg. ferritin, including seven B‑cell antigen epitope amino acid sequences with high values: 8‑16, 54‑61, 70‑75, 80‑90, 103‑109, 117‑124 and 167‑173; and four T‑cell antigen epitope amino acid sequences with high values: 85‑93, 105‑113, 133‑141 and 157‑165. Furthermore, a combined epitope region comprising an 105‑109 amino acid sequence was identified. In conclusion, using bioinformatic methods, the present study confirmed the existence of Eg. ferritin on four T‑cell antigen epitopes, seven B‑cell antigen epitopes, and one T‑ and B‑combined epitope region. These findings provide significant information for further investigation of the antigenicity of Eg. ferritin and the development of highly efficient epitope vaccines.
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- Xuelei Liu
- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Xinjiang Major Diseases Research (2010DS890294) and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830000, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Xinjiang Major Diseases Research (2010DS890294) and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830000, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Xinjiang Major Diseases Research (2010DS890294) and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830000, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Xinjiang Major Diseases Research (2010DS890294) and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830000, P.R. China
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- Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medicine of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Xinjiang Major Diseases Research (2010DS890294) and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830000, P.R. China
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- Department of Immunology, College of Basic Medicine of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830011, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Xinjiang Major Diseases Research (2010DS890294) and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830000, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Xinjiang Major Diseases Research (2010DS890294) and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830000, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory Incubation Base of Xinjiang Major Diseases Research (2010DS890294) and Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Echinococcosis, First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830000, P.R. China
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Zhou H, Zhao X, Wu R, Cui Z, Diao B, Li J, Wang D, Kan B, Liang W. Population structural analysis of O1 El Tor Vibrio cholerae isolated in China among the seventh cholera pandemic on the basis of multilocus sequence typing and virulence gene profiles. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2014; 22:72-80. [PMID: 24448269 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.12.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2013] [Revised: 12/12/2013] [Accepted: 12/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Serogroup O1 Vibrio cholerae is the most common agents to cause epidemic and pandemic cholera disease. In this study, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was performed on 160 serogroup O1 strains (including 42 toxigenic and 118 non-toxigenic), and the virulence/fitness gene profiles of 16 loci were further analysed for 60 strains of these. Eighty-four sequence types (STs) with 14 clonal complexes were distinguished, and 29 STs were unique. Except SD19771005, all toxigenic strains were well-separated from the non-toxigenic strains. While a group of non-toxigenic strains clustered closer to the toxigenic strains compared to the other strains. Overall the examined gene loci showed higher presence rates in the toxigenic strains compared to the non-toxigenic strains. It is worth noting that the presence rates of VPI, TLC, VSP-I and VSP-II in the non-toxigenic strains that were clustered closer to the toxigenic strains were much higher compared to the other non-toxigenic strains. Our study indicated the complex population structure of O1 strains, and parts of non-toxigenic strains are genetically more closely related to toxigenic strains than other non-toxigenic strains, suggesting that these strains may have a higher potential for infection with CTXФ in the environment or host intestine and is more efficient to become new pathogenic or epidemic clones.
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- Haijian Zhou
- National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, and State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 155, Changbai Road, Changping, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China; Collaborative Innovation Centre for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310003, People's Republic of China
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- National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, and State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 155, Changbai Road, Changping, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China
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- National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, and State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 155, Changbai Road, Changping, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China
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- National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, and State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 155, Changbai Road, Changping, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China; Collaborative Innovation Centre for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310003, People's Republic of China
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- National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, and State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 155, Changbai Road, Changping, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China
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- National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, and State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 155, Changbai Road, Changping, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China
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- National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, and State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 155, Changbai Road, Changping, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China; Collaborative Innovation Centre for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310003, People's Republic of China
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- National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, and State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 155, Changbai Road, Changping, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China; Collaborative Innovation Centre for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310003, People's Republic of China.
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- National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, and State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, 155, Changbai Road, Changping, Beijing 102206, People's Republic of China; Collaborative Innovation Centre for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310003, People's Republic of China.
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Stauder M, Huq A, Pezzati E, Grim CJ, Ramoino P, Pane L, Colwell RR, Pruzzo C, Vezzulli L. Role of GbpA protein, an important virulence-related colonization factor, for Vibrio cholerae's survival in the aquatic environment. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2012; 4:439-445. [PMID: 23760830 DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00356.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Vibrio cholerae N-acetyl glucosamine-binding protein A (GbpA) is a chitin binding protein and a virulence factor involved in the colonization of human intestine. We investigated the distribution and genetic variations of gbpA in 488 V. cholerae strains of environmental and clinical origin, belonging to different serogroups and biotypes. We found that the gene is consistently present and highly conserved including an environmental V. cholerae-related strain of ancestral origin. The gene was also consistently expressed in a number of representative V. cholerae strains cultured in laboratory aquatic microcosms under conditions simulating those found in temperate marine environments. Functional analysis carried out on V. cholerae O1 El Tor N16961 showed that GbpA is not involved in adhesion to inorganic surfaces but promotes interaction with environmental biotic substrates (plankton and bivalve hepatopancreas cells) representing known marine reservoir or host for the bacterium. It is suggested that the ability of GbpA to colonize human intestinal cells most probably originated from its primary function in the aquatic environment.
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- Monica Stauder
- Department for the Study of Territory and Its Resources, University of Genoa, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genoa, Italy Maryland Pathogen Research Institute Center of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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Sharma SK, Moe TS, Srivastava R, Chandra D, Srivastava BS. Functional characterization of VC1929 of Vibrio cholerae El Tor: role in mannose-sensitive haemagglutination, virulence and utilization of sialic acid. Microbiology (Reading) 2011; 157:3180-3186. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.050245-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The nonadhesive mutant CD11 of Vibrio cholerae El Tor, defective in expression of mannose-sensitive haemagglutinin, lacks a protein when compared with its parent strain. Determination of the amino acid sequence revealed the identity of the protein as the product of VC1929, which is annotated to encode a protein, DctP, involved in the transport of C4-dicarboxylates. We cloned the dctP gene in pUC19 vector and expressed it in mutant CD11. Expression of DctP in the resulting complemented strain restored virulence, adhesive and colonizing capabilities, mannose-sensitive haemagglutination (MSHA) and ability to grow in medium containing sialic acid as a sole carbon source. The mutation in CD11 was caused by insertion of an adenine nucleotide in the reading frame of dctP. Recombinant purified DctP protein showed MSHA of human red blood cells, and protected rabbits against infection by V. cholerae. The protein was localized in membrane and cell wall fractions. The mutant, recombinant CD11 expressing DctP and parent strains were grown in M9 minimal medium in the presence of various carbohydrates (glucose, malate, fumarate, succinate or N-acetylneuraminic acid). The mutant was unable to grow in minimal medium containing N-acetylneuraminic acid (sialic acid) as the sole carbon source whereas the recombinant and parent strains utilized all the sugars tested. It is concluded that DctP is a mannose-sensitive haemagglutinin and a virulence factor and is involved in the utilization of sialic acid.
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- Sandeep K. Sharma
- Microbiology Division, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Microbiology Division, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Microbiology Division, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Lucknow, Lucknow 226001, India
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- Microbiology Division, Central Drug Research Institute, CSIR, Lucknow 226001, India
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Genetic characterization of Vibrio cholerae O1 strains isolated in Zambia during 1996-2004 possessing the unique VSP-II region of El Tor variant. Epidemiol Infect 2011; 140:510-8. [PMID: 21676349 DOI: 10.1017/s0950268811000926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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New variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 have appeared in different time-frames in various endemic regions, especially in Asia and Africa. Sixty-nine strains of V. cholerae O1 isolated in Zambia between 1996 and 2004 were investigated by various genotypic techniques to determine the lineage of virulence signatures and clonality. All strains were positive for Vibrio seventh pandemic Islands (VSP)-I and VSP-II and repeat toxin (RTX) gene clusters attesting their El Tor lineage. Interestingly, strains isolated in recent times (2003-2004) were identified as an altered variant (El Tor biotype that harbours El Tor type rstR but produce classical ctxB) that replaced completely the progenitor El Tor strains prevalent in 1996-1997. Recent altered variant strains differed from prototype El Tor strains isolated earlier in that these strains lacked two ORFs, VC0493 and VC0498, in the VSP-II region. PFGE analysis revealed two major clonal lineages in the strains; cluster A represented the strains isolated before 2003 and cluster B the altered strains isolated in 2003-2004. Cluster A was closely related to prototype El Tor reference strain isolated in Bangladesh in 1971. Cluster B was found to be matched with Bangladeshi altered strains but was different from the hybrid strains isolated from Mozambique and Bangladesh. This report provides important information on the genesis of altered strains of V. cholerae O1 isolated in Zambia and emphasizes the need for further studies to follow the trends of evolutionary changes.
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De Vries GC, Sabdoningrum EK, Rahardjo D. New Biotype of Vibrio cholerae O1 from Clinical Isolates in Surabaya. INDONESIAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE 2010. [DOI: 10.20473/ijtid.v1i1.3724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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A surveillance of new pathogenic variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 strains was initiated to identify the emerge and spread throughout Surabaya. Findings from seven years (1994–2000) and from years 2008 until now by using a two-fold surveillance strategy was pursued involving 1) hospital-based case recognition, and 2) environment samples. Rectal swabs and environment samples were transported to ITD-UNAIR, Surabaya for culture and isolates were characterized by serotypic identification and arbitrarily primed PCR fingerprints revealed a group of strains with similar fingerprint patterns that are distinct from those of the current El Tor epidemic strain. These strains have been analyzed by in vitro technique and the group has been denominated the Surabaya-Indonesian variant of V. cholerae O1.
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Stauder M, Vezzulli L, Pezzati E, Repetto B, Pruzzo C. Temperature affects Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor persistence in the aquatic environment via an enhanced expression of GbpA and MSHA adhesins. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY REPORTS 2010; 2:140-144. [PMID: 23766009 DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00121.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor attachment to chitin and biofilm formation on polyvinylchloride surfaces via the N-acetylglucosamine-binding protein A (GbpA) and the mannose-sensitive haemagglutinin (MSHA) were investigated under different temperature and salinity conditions simulating those found in the aquatic environment. In vitro tests showed that mshA and gbpA defective V. cholerae N16961 strains displayed a significant reduction (P < 0.05) in attachment to chitin in comparison with the parent in all the environmental conditions tested. The lack of mshA, but not gbpA, resulted in a significant decrease (P < 0.05) of V. cholerae N16961 strain ability to form biofilm. Wild-type attachment to chitin and biofilm formation increased from 15°C to 25°C as did gbpA and mshA expression. In situ data obtained analysing zooplankton and water samples collected in coastal waters of NW Mediterranean Sea over an annual cycle showed that the percentage of plankton-associated V. cholerae was positive correlated with sea surface temperature, and increased dramatically at temperature values above 22°C. It is suggested that temperature plays a major role in affecting persistence of V. cholerae in the aquatic environment by promoting colonization of environmental surfaces, via an enhanced expression of both mshA and gbpA.
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- Monica Stauder
- Institute of Microbiology and Biomedical Sciences, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy. Department of Biology, University of Genova, Genova, Italy. Department of Pathology, Section of Microbiology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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Safa A, Bhuiyan NA, Murphy D, Bates J, Nusrin S, Kong RYC, Chongsanguan M, Chaicumpa W, Nair GB. Multilocus genetic analysis reveals that the Australian strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 are similar to the pre-seventh pandemic strains of the El Tor biotype. J Med Microbiol 2009; 58:105-111. [PMID: 19074660 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.004333-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Episodes of cholera stemming from indigenous Vibrio cholerae strains in Australia are mainly associated with environmental sources. In the present study, 10 V. cholerae O1 strains of Australian origin were characterized. All of the strains were serogroup O1 and their conventional phenotypic traits categorized them as belonging to the El Tor biotype. Genetic screening of 12 genomic regions that are associated with virulence in V. cholerae showed variable results. Analysis of the ctxAB gene showed that the Australian environmental reservoir contains both toxigenic and non-toxigenic V. cholerae strains. DNA sequencing revealed that all of the toxigenic V. cholerae strains examined were of ctxB genotype 2. Whole genome PFGE analysis revealed that the environmental toxigenic V. cholerae O1 strains were more diverse than the non-toxigenic environmental O1 strains, and the absence of genes that make up the Vibrio seventh pandemic island-I and -II in all of the strains indicates their pre-seventh pandemic ancestry.
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- Ashrafus Safa
- Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
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- Public Health Microbiology Laboratory, Forensic and Scientific Services, Cooper, Coopers Plains, Queensland, Australia
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- Public Health Microbiology Laboratory, Forensic and Scientific Services, Cooper, Coopers Plains, Queensland, Australia
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
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- Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 420/6 Rajvithi Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
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- Molecular Microbiology and Molecular Immunology Laboratories, Faculty of Allied Health, Thammasat University, Pratumatance 12121, Thailand
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- National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, India
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Basak S, Banerjee R, Mukherjee I, Das S. Influence of domain architecture and codon usage pattern on the evolution of virulence factors of Vibrio cholerae. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2009; 379:803-5. [PMID: 19159613 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.01.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2008] [Accepted: 01/05/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Cholera remains a heavy burden to human health in some developing countries including India where sanitation is poor and health care is limited. After the publication of the complete genome sequence of Vibrio cholerae, the etiological agent of cholera, extensive possibilities, earlier unavailable, have opened up to understand the genetic organization of V. cholerae. In the present study, we analyzed all the pathogenic non-horizontally transferred genes of V. cholerae to know the ancestral relationship and how the pathogenic genes have been evolved in V. cholerae genome. We observed that protein domain has important role in developing pathogenicity, and codon usage pattern of the pathogenic protein domain is also subject to selection. The present study unambiguously depict that the patterns of synonymous codon usage within a protein domain can change dramatically during the course of evolution to give rise to pathogenicity.
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- Surajit Basak
- Biomedical Informatics Center, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, P-33, CIT Road, Scheme-XM, Beliaghata, Kolkata 700010, West Bengal, India.
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Pruzzo C, Vezzulli L, Colwell RR. Global impact of Vibrio cholerae interactions with chitin. Environ Microbiol 2008; 10:1400-10. [PMID: 18312392 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01559.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The interaction of Vibrio cholerae with chitin exemplifies for microbial ecology a successful bacteria-substrate interaction with complex and significant influence on the lifestyle of the bacterium. Chitin is one of the most abundant polymers on earth and possibly the most abundant in the aquatic environment, where its association with V. cholerae has provided the microorganism with a number of advantages, including food availability, adaptation to environmental nutrient gradients, tolerance to stress and protection from predators. Emergent properties of V. cholerae-chitin interactions occur at multiple hierarchical levels in the environment and include cell metabolic and physiological responses e.g. chemotaxis, cell multiplication, induction of competence, biofilm formation, commensal and symbiotic relationship with higher organisms, cycling of nutrients, and pathogenicity for humans and aquatic animals. As factors mediating virulence of V. cholerae for humans and aquatic animals derive from mechanisms of adaptation to its environment, at different levels of hierarchical scale, V. cholerae interactions with chitin represent a useful model for examination of the role of primary habitat selection in the development of traits that have been identified as virulence factors in human disease.
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- Carla Pruzzo
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy.
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Mwansa JCL, Mwaba J, Lukwesa C, Bhuiyan NA, Ansaruzzaman M, Ramamurthy T, Alam M, Balakrish Nair G. Multiply antibiotic-resistant Vibrio cholerae O1 biotype El Tor strains emerge during cholera outbreaks in Zambia. Epidemiol Infect 2007; 135:847-53. [PMID: 17121691 PMCID: PMC2870619 DOI: 10.1017/s0950268806007254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/10/2006] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Antibiotic resistance data, made available from laboratory records during eight cholera outbreaks between 1990 and 2004 showed Vibrio cholerae serogroup O1 to have a low level of resistance (2-3%) to tetracycline during 1990-1991. Resistance increased for tetracycline (95%), chloramphenicol (78%), doxycycline (70%) and trimethoprim-sulphamethoxazole (97%) in subsequent outbreaks. A significant drop in resistance to tetracycline and chloramphenicol followed the adoption of a national policy to replace tetracycline with erythromycin for treating cholera. Sixty-nine strains from cholera outbreaks in Zambia between 1996 and 2004, were examined for antibiotic resistance and basic molecular traits. A 140 MDa conjugative, multidrug-resistant plasmid was found to encode tetracycline resistance in strains from 1996/1997 whereas strains from 2003/2004 were resistant to furazolidone, but susceptible to tetracycline, and lacked this plasmid. PCR revealed 25 of 27 strains from 1996/1997 harboured the intl1 class 1 integron but lacked SXT, a conjugative transposon element. Similar screening of 42 strains from 2003/2004 revealed all carried SXT but not the intl1 class 1 integron. All 69 strains, except two, one lacking ctxA and the other rstR and thus presumably truncated in the CTX prophage region, were positive for important epidemic markers namely rfbO1, ctxA, rstR2, and tcpA of El Tor biotype. Effective cholera management is dependent on updated reports on culture and sensitivity to inform the choice of antibiotic. Since the emergence of antibiotic resistance may significantly influence strategies for controlling cholera, continuous monitoring of epidemic strains is crucial.
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- J C L Mwansa
- University Teaching Hospital, Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Lusaka, Zambia.
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Chen Y, Johnson JA, Pusch GD, Morris JG, Stine OC. The genome of non-O1 Vibrio cholerae NRT36S demonstrates the presence of pathogenic mechanisms that are distinct from those of O1 Vibrio cholerae. Infect Immun 2007; 75:2645-7. [PMID: 17283087 PMCID: PMC1865779 DOI: 10.1128/iai.01317-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Vibrio cholerae NRT36S is a non-cholera toxin-producing, non-O1 strain that causes diarrhea in volunteers. The genome of NRT36S was sequenced to create a draft containing 174 contigs plus the superintegron region. Our analysis of the draft genome revealed several putative toxin genes and colonization factors. Besides confirming the existence of nonagglutinable heat-stable toxin, we also identified the genes for a type three secretion system, a putative exotoxin, two different RTX toxins, and four pilus systems.
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- Yuansha Chen
- University of Maryland, Howard Hall 585, 660 W. Redwood Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
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Nair GB, Safa A, Bhuiyan NA, Nusrin S, Murphy D, Nicol C, Valcanis M, Iddings S, Kubuabola I, Vally H. Isolation of Vibrio cholerae O1 strains similar to pre-seventh pandemic El Tor strains during an outbreak of gastrointestinal disease in an island resort in Fiji. J Med Microbiol 2006; 55:1559-1562. [PMID: 17030916 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46734-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Five strains of Vibrio cholerae O1, one each from an Australian and a New Zealand tourist with gastrointestinal illness returning from an island resort in Fiji and the remaining three from water sources located in the same resort, were extensively characterized. Conventional phenotypic traits that are used for biotyping of O1 V. cholerae categorized all five strains as belonging to the El Tor biotype. Genetic screening of 11 regions that are associated with virulence in V. cholerae showed variable results. The absence of genes comprising Vibrio seventh pandemic island-I (VSP-I) and VSP-II in all the strains indicated that these strains were very similar to the pre-seventh pandemic V. cholerae O1 El Tor strains. The ctxAB genes were absent in all strains whereas orfU and zot were present in four strains, indicating that the strains were non-toxigenic. Four strains carried a truncated CTX prophage. Although epidemiological and molecular studies suggested that these strains did not cause cholera amongst tourists at the resort, their similarity to pre-seventh pandemic strains, their prior association with gastrointestinal illness and their presence in the island resort setting warrant more attention.
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- G Balakrish Nair
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) Dhaka, Bangladesh
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- Public Health Microbiology, Queensland Health Scientific Services, Coopers Plains, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited (ESR), Kenepuru Science Centre, Poriru, New Zealand
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- Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory (MDUPHL), Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- World Health Organization (WHO), South Pacific Office, Suva, Fiji
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- Fiji Centre for Communicable Disease Control, Mataika House, Suva, Fiji
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- National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- World Health Organization (WHO), South Pacific Office, Suva, Fiji
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Safa A, Bhuyian NA, Nusrin S, Ansaruzzaman M, Alam M, Hamabata T, Takeda Y, Sack DA, Nair GB. Genetic characteristics of Matlab variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 that are hybrids between classical and El Tor biotypes. J Med Microbiol 2006; 55:1563-1569. [PMID: 17030917 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46689-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The Matlab variants of Vibrio cholerae O1, defined as hybrids between the classical and El Tor biotypes, were first isolated from hospitalized patients with acute secretory diarrhoea in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh. These variants could not be categorized as classical or El Tor biotypes by phenotypic and genotypic tests, and had representative traits of both the biotypes. A number of virulence-associated genes and/or gene clusters were screened by PCR and DNA sequencing. El Tor-specific gene clusters, Vibrio seventh-pandemic islands (VSP)-I and -II and repeat toxin (RTX) were present in the genome of these variants, indicating their El Tor lineage, whereas the nucleotide-sequence-derived CtxB amino acid sequence of these strains grouped them under the classical biotype. Matlab variants possessed all the necessary genes to initiate pandemics. The genetic relatedness of Matlab variants to the V. cholerae strains recently isolated in Mozambique is another important observation of this study, which underscores the epidemiological significance of Matlab variants.
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- Ashrafus Safa
- Laboratory Sciences Division, Enteric Microbiology Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), Centre for Health and Population Research, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
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- Laboratory Sciences Division, Enteric Microbiology Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), Centre for Health and Population Research, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
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- Laboratory Sciences Division, Enteric Microbiology Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), Centre for Health and Population Research, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
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- Laboratory Sciences Division, Enteric Microbiology Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), Centre for Health and Population Research, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
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- Laboratory Sciences Division, Enteric Microbiology Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), Centre for Health and Population Research, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
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- International Medical Research Center of Japan, Toyama, Tokyo, Japan
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- Laboratory Sciences Division, Enteric Microbiology Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), Centre for Health and Population Research, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
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- Laboratory Sciences Division, Enteric Microbiology Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B), Centre for Health and Population Research, GPO Box 128, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh
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Dalisay DS, Webb JS, Scheffel A, Svenson C, James S, Holmström C, Egan S, Kjelleberg S. A mannose-sensitive haemagglutinin (MSHA)-like pilus promotes attachment of Pseudoalteromonas tunicata cells to the surface of the green alga Ulva australis. Microbiology (Reading) 2006; 152:2875-2883. [PMID: 17005969 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29158-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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This study demonstrates that attachment of the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas tunicata to the cellulose-containing surface of the green alga Ulva australis is mediated by a mannose-sensitive haemagglutinin (MSHA-like) pilus. We have identified an MSHA pilus biogenesis gene locus in P. tunicata, termed mshI1I2JKLMNEGFBACDOPQ, which shows significant homology, with respect to its genetic characteristics and organization, to the MSHA pilus biogenesis gene locus of Vibrio cholerae. Electron microscopy studies revealed that P. tunicata wild-type cells express flexible pili peritrichously arranged on the cell surface. A P. tunicata mutant (SM5) with a transposon insertion in the mshJ region displayed a non-piliated phenotype. Using SM5, it has been demonstrated that the MSHA pilus promotes attachment of P. tunicata wild-type cells in polystyrene microtitre plates, as well as to microcrystalline cellulose and to the living surface of U. australis. P. tunicata also demonstrated increased pilus production in response to cellulose and its monomer constituent cellobiose. The MSHA pilus thus functions as a determinant of attachment in P. tunicata, and it is proposed that an understanding of surface sensing mechanisms displayed by P. tunicata will provide insight into specific ecological interactions that occur between this bacterium and higher marine organisms.
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MESH Headings
- Bacterial Adhesion/genetics
- Bacterial Proteins/genetics
- Cellulose/metabolism
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Bacterial/chemistry
- DNA, Bacterial/genetics
- Fimbriae Proteins/genetics
- Fimbriae Proteins/metabolism
- Fimbriae Proteins/physiology
- Fimbriae, Bacterial/genetics
- Fimbriae, Bacterial/physiology
- Fimbriae, Bacterial/ultrastructure
- Gene Deletion
- Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
- Mannose/metabolism
- Mannose-Binding Lectin/genetics
- Mannose-Binding Lectin/metabolism
- Mannose-Binding Lectin/physiology
- Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- Polystyrenes/metabolism
- Pseudoalteromonas/genetics
- Pseudoalteromonas/physiology
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Ulva/microbiology
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- Doralyn S Dalisay
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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- Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology, Celsiusstraße 1 28359, Bremen, Germany
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- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Centre for Marine Biofouling and Bio-innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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Gubala AJ. Multiplex real-time PCR detection of Vibrio cholerae. J Microbiol Methods 2005; 65:278-93. [PMID: 16153727 DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2005.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2005] [Revised: 07/29/2005] [Accepted: 07/29/2005] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Cholera is an important enteric disease, which is endemic to different regions of the world and has historically been the cause of severe pandemics. Vibrio cholerae is a natural inhabitant of the aquatic environment and the toxigenic strains are causative agents of potentially life-threatening diarrhoea. A multiplex, real-time detection assay was developed targeting four genes characteristic of potentially toxigenic strains of V. cholerae, encoding: repeat in toxin (rtxA), extracellular secretory protein (epsM), mannose-sensitive pili (mshA) and the toxin coregulated pilus (tcpA). The assay was developed on the Cepheid Smart Cycler using SYBR Green I for detection and the products were differentiated based on melting temperature (Tm) analysis. Validation of the assay was achieved by testing against a range of Vibrio and non-Vibrio species. The detection limit of the assay was determined to be 10(3) CFU using cells from pure culture. This assay was also successful at detecting V. cholerae directly from spiked environmental water samples in the order of 10(4) CFU, except from sea water which inhibited the assay. The incorporation of a simple DNA purification step prior to the addition to the PCR increased the sensitivity 10 fold to 10(3) CFU. This multiplex real-time PCR assay allows for a more reliable, rapid detection and identification of V. cholerae which is considerably faster than current conventional detection assays.
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- Aneta J Gubala
- Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear Defence Centre, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Melbourne, Australia.
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Faruque SM, Nair GB, Mekalanos JJ. Genetics of stress adaptation and virulence in toxigenic Vibrio cholerae. DNA Cell Biol 2005; 23:723-41. [PMID: 15585131 DOI: 10.1089/dna.2004.23.723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Vibrio cholerae, a Gram-negative bacterium belonging to the gamma-subdivision of the family Proteobacteriaceae is the etiologic agent of cholera, a devastating diarrheal disease which occurs frequently as epidemics. Any bacterial species encountering a broad spectrum of environments during the course of its life cycle is likely to develop complex regulatory systems and stress adaptation mechanisms to best survive in each environment encountered. Toxigenic V. cholerae, which has evolved from environmental nonpathogenic V. cholerae by acquisition of virulence genes, represents a paradigm for this process in that this organism naturally exists in an aquatic environment but infects human beings and cause cholera. The V. cholerae genome, which is comprised of two independent circular mega-replicons, carries the genetic determinants for the bacterium to survive both in an aquatic environment as well as in the human intestinal environment. Pathogenesis of V. cholerae involves coordinated expression of different sets of virulence associated genes, and the synergistic action of their gene products. Although the acquisition of major virulence genes and association between V. cholerae and its human host appears to be recent, and reflects a simple pathogenic strategy, the establishment of a productive infection involves the expression of many more genes that are crucial for survival and adaptation of the bacterium in the host, as well as for its onward transmission and epidemic spread. While a few of the virulence gene clusters involved directly with cholera pathogenesis have been characterized, the potential exists for identification of yet new genes which may influence the stress adaptation, pathogenesis, and epidemiological characteristics of V. cholerae. Coevolution of bacteria and mobile genetic elements (plasmids, transposons, pathogenicity islands, and phages) can determine environmental survival and pathogenic interactions between bacteria and their hosts. Besides horizontal gene transfer mediated by genetic elements and phages, the evolution of pathogenic V. cholerae involves a combination of selection mechanisms both in the host and in the environment. The occurrence of periodic epidemics of cholera in endemic areas appear to enhance this process.
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- Shah M Faruque
- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh.
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O'Shea YA, Reen FJ, Quirke AM, Boyd EF. Evolutionary genetic analysis of the emergence of epidemic Vibrio cholerae isolates on the basis of comparative nucleotide sequence analysis and multilocus virulence gene profiles. J Clin Microbiol 2004; 42:4657-71. [PMID: 15472325 PMCID: PMC522369 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.42.10.4657-4671.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, is a natural inhabitant of the aquatic ecosystem. We examined a unique collection of V. cholerae clinical and environmental isolates of widespread geographic distribution recovered over a 60-year period to determine their evolutionary genetic relationships based on analysis of two housekeeping genes, malate dehydrogenase (mdh) and a chaperonin (groEL). In addition, the phylogenetic distribution of 12 regions associated with virulence was determined. Comparative sequence analysis of mdh revealed that all V. cholerae O1 and O139 serogroup isolates belonged to the same clonal lineage. Single-strand conformational polymorphism (SSCP) analysis of these O1 and O139 strains at groEL confirmed the presence of an epidemic clonal complex. Of the 12 virulence regions examined, only three regions, Vibrio seventh pandemic island 1 (VSP-I), VSP-II, and RS1, were absent from all classical V. cholerae isolates. Most V. cholerae El Tor biotype and O139 serogroup isolates examined encoded all 12 virulence regions assayed. Outside of V. cholerae O1/O139 serogroup isolates, only one strain, VO7, contained VSP-I. Two V. cholerae El Tor isolates, GP155 and 2164-78, lacked both VSP-I and VSP-II, and one El Tor isolate, GP43, lacked VSP-II. Five non-O1/non-O139 serogroup isolates had an mdh sequence identical to that of the epidemic O1 and O139 strains. These isolates, similar to classical strains, lack both VSP-I and VSP-II. Four of the 12 virulence regions examined were found to be present in all isolates: hlyA, pilE, MSHA and RTX. Among non-O1/non-O139 isolates, however, the occurrence of the additional eight regions was considerably lower. The evolutionary relationships and multilocus virulence gene profiles of V. cholerae natural isolates indicate that consecutive pandemic strains arose from a common O1 serogroup progenitor through the successive acquisition of new virulence regions.
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- Yvonne A O'Shea
- Department of Microbiology, University College Cork, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland
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Falero G, Rodríguez BL, Rodríguez I, Campos J, Ledon T, Valle E, Silva Y, Marrero K, Suzarte E, Valmaseda T, Moreno A, Fando R. Production and Characterization of Monoclonal Antibodies to E1 Tor Toxin Co-Regulated Pilus ofVibrio cholerae. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003; 22:315-20. [PMID: 14678649 DOI: 10.1089/153685903322538845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Murine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against Vibrio cholerae toxin co-regulated pilus (TCP) were generated using conventional hybridoma procedures. Four hybridomas were obtained and two characterized. Hybridomas 10E10E1 and 4D6F9 secreted antibodies of the IgG2a and IgG1 isotypes, respectively, that reacted with a 24-kDa antigen corresponding to the product of the El Tor tcpA gene fused to a six Histidine tail. Additionally, MAbs produced by 4D6F9 selectively recognized the major pilin subunit (TcpA) of El Tor and O139 vibrios in western immunoblot, while MAbs from 10E10E1 also cross-reacted with classical TcpA. Furthermore, vibrios expressing TCP on their surface selectively inhibited binding of the antibodies secreted by both hybridomas to TcpA-coated microtiter plates. Thus, the MAbs reported in this work detected the structural subunit of the pilus either denatured or assembled on the bacterial surface.
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- G Falero
- Departamento de Anticuerpos Monoclonales, Instituto Finlay, Havana, Cuba
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Béchet M, Blondeau R. Factors associated with the adherence and biofilm formation by Aeromonas caviae on glass surfaces. J Appl Microbiol 2003; 94:1072-8. [PMID: 12752817 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2672.2003.01931.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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AIMS Knowledge on factors of Aeromonas caviae promoting the formation of biofilms on surfaces. METHODS AND RESULTS In nutrient broth under agitation, A. caviae LMG 13455 was able to form biofilms on the surfaces of glass flasks, but such biofilm formation was inconsistent. A derivative of this strain, called M12, promoted the rapid formation of reliable and strongly adherent biofilms with about half of the cells being adhered. In contrast with its parent, M12 was hydrophobic, displayed auto-aggregation in liquid medium, synthesized very little polysaccharides and was defective in swimming and swarming motilities, together with the appearance of a characteristic phenotype on motility soft agar. Further analyses demonstrated that most of these properties were related to a hyperpiliation of the cells through the presence of type IV pili, and suggested that a mechanism of genetic variation, by altering the nature of motility appendages, allows the variant bacteria to attach on inert surfaces. CONCLUSIONS M12 is a stabilized variant of the parental strain, promoting strongly adherent biofilms through the type IV pili. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY The wild-type strain A. caviae LMG 13455 include subpopulations that are likely implicated in its adaptation to different environmental changes.
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- M Béchet
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
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Hang L, John M, Asaduzzaman M, Bridges EA, Vanderspurt C, Kirn TJ, Taylor RK, Hillman JD, Progulske-Fox A, Handfield M, Ryan ET, Calderwood SB. Use of in vivo-induced antigen technology (IVIAT) to identify genes uniquely expressed during human infection with Vibrio cholerae. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:8508-13. [PMID: 12826608 PMCID: PMC166259 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1431769100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2003] [Accepted: 05/20/2003] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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In vivo-induced antigen technology is a method to identify proteins expressed by pathogenic bacteria during human infection. Sera from 10 patients convalescing from cholera infection in Bangladesh were pooled, adsorbed against in vitro-grown El Tor Vibrio cholerae O1, and used to probe a genomic expression library in Escherichia coli constructed from El Tor V. cholerae O1 strain N16961. We identified 38 positive clones in the screen, encoding pili (PilA and TcpA), cell membrane proteins (PilQ, MshO, MshP, and CapK), methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins, chemotaxis and motility proteins (CheA and CheR), a quorum-sensing protein (LuxP), and four hypothetical proteins. Analysis of immune responses to purified PilA and TcpA in individual patients demonstrated that the majority seroconverted to these proteins, confirming results with pooled sera. These results suggest that PilA and its outer membrane secretin, PilQ, are expressed during human infection and may be involved in colonization of the gastrointestinal tract. These results also demonstrate substantial immune responses to TcpA in patients infected with El Tor V. cholerae O1. In vivo-induced antigen technology provides a simple method for identifying microbial proteins expressed during human infection, but not during in vitro growth.
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- Long Hang
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; Department
of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
02115; International Centre for Diarrhoeal
Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
03755-1404; and Center for Molecular
Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0405
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; Department
of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
02115; International Centre for Diarrhoeal
Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
03755-1404; and Center for Molecular
Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0405
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; Department
of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
02115; International Centre for Diarrhoeal
Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
03755-1404; and Center for Molecular
Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0405
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; Department
of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
02115; International Centre for Diarrhoeal
Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
03755-1404; and Center for Molecular
Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0405
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; Department
of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
02115; International Centre for Diarrhoeal
Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
03755-1404; and Center for Molecular
Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0405
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; Department
of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
02115; International Centre for Diarrhoeal
Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
03755-1404; and Center for Molecular
Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0405
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; Department
of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
02115; International Centre for Diarrhoeal
Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
03755-1404; and Center for Molecular
Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0405
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; Department
of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
02115; International Centre for Diarrhoeal
Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
03755-1404; and Center for Molecular
Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0405
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; Department
of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
02115; International Centre for Diarrhoeal
Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
03755-1404; and Center for Molecular
Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0405
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; Department
of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
02115; International Centre for Diarrhoeal
Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
03755-1404; and Center for Molecular
Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0405
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; Department
of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
02115; International Centre for Diarrhoeal
Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
03755-1404; and Center for Molecular
Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0405
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114; Department
of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
02115; International Centre for Diarrhoeal
Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Department
of Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
03755-1404; and Center for Molecular
Microbiology and Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University
of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610-0405
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Stabb EV, Ruby EG. Contribution of pilA to competitive colonization of the squid Euprymna scolopes by Vibrio fischeri. Appl Environ Microbiol 2003; 69:820-6. [PMID: 12571000 PMCID: PMC143614 DOI: 10.1128/aem.69.2.820-826.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Vibrio fischeri colonizes the squid Euprymna scolopes in a mutualistic symbiosis. Hatchling squid lack these bacterial symbionts, and V. fischeri strains must compete to occupy this privileged niche. We cloned a V. fischeri gene, designated pilA, that contributes to colonization competitiveness and encodes a protein similar to type IV-A pilins. Unlike its closest known relatives, Vibrio cholerae mshA and vcfA, pilA is monocistronic and not clustered with genes associated with pilin export or assembly. Using wild-type strain ES114 as the parent, we generated an in-frame pilA deletion mutant, as well as pilA mutants marked with a kanamycin resistance gene. In mixed inocula, marked mutants were repeatedly outcompeted by ES114 (P < 0.05) but not by an unmarked pilA mutant, for squid colonization. In contrast, the ratio of mutant to ES114 CFUs did not change during 70 generations of coculturing. The competitive defect of pilA mutants ranged from 1.7- to 10-fold and was more pronounced when inocula were within the range estimated for V. fischeri populations in Hawaiian seawater (200 to 2,000 cells/ml) than when higher densities were used. ES114 also outcompeted a pilA mutant by an average of twofold at lower inoculum densities, when only a fraction of the squid became infected, most by only one strain. V. fischeri strain ET101, which was isolated from Euprymna tasmanica and is outcompeted by ES114, lacks pilA; however, 11 other diverse V. fischeri isolates apparently possess pilA. The competitive defect of pilA mutants suggests that cell surface molecules may play important roles in the initiation of beneficial symbioses in which animals must acquire symbionts from a mixed community of environmental bacteria.
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- Eric V Stabb
- Pacific Biomedical Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, USA.
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Kuroki H, Toma C, Nakasone N, Yamashiro T, Iwanaga M. Gene analysis of Vibrio cholerae NAGV14 pilus and its distribution. Microbiol Immunol 2002; 45:417-24. [PMID: 11497216 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2001.tb02640.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Adhesive pilus of Vibrio cholerae 034, strain NAGV14, was genetically analyzed. The deduced amino acid (aa) sequence of the major pilin structural gene (VcfA) was 67% homologous to the MshA pilin in the N-terminal region, but no homology was found in the C-terminal region which contained the antigenic epitopes. Upstream and downstream flanking regions examined were highly homologous to mshB and mshC of the MSHA (mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin) gene locus. A short leader sequence and a pair of cysteines near the C-terminus which are the characteristics of type 4a pilus family were found. The major pilin structural gene of NAGV14 was compared to that of a strain V10 producing non-adhesive pili. The deduced aa sequences showed 60% homology, and the distance between two cysteines in the C-terminal region was different. A total of 177 V. cholerae strains were investigated for the presence of a type 4 pilus gene locus by PCR, and 95% were positive. The major pilin gene of NAGV14 was detected in 4 of 93 V. cholerae non-O1, non-0139 strains tested, but none of the V. cholerae O1 and O139 (72 and 12 strains, respectively). Our result suggested that a type 4 pilus gene locus similar to the MSHA gene locus is widely distributed among V. cholerae strains. We proposed naming this type 4 pilus gene locus the VCF (for V. cholerae flexible pili) gene locus.
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- H Kuroki
- Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
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Chiavelli DA, Marsh JW, Taylor RK. The mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin of Vibrio cholerae promotes adherence to zooplankton. Appl Environ Microbiol 2001; 67:3220-5. [PMID: 11425745 PMCID: PMC93004 DOI: 10.1128/aem.67.7.3220-3225.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2001] [Accepted: 04/11/2001] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The bacterium Vibrio cholerae, the etiological agent of cholera, is often found attached to plankton, a property that is thought to contribute to its environmental persistence in aquatic habitats. The V. cholerae O1 El Tor biotype and V. cholerae O139 strains produce a surface pilus termed the mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin (MSHA), whereas V. cholerae O1 classical biotype strains do not. Although V. cholerae O1 classical does not elaborate MSHA, the gene is present and expressed at a level comparable to that of the other strains. Since V. cholerae O1 El Tor and V. cholerae O139 have displaced V. cholerae O1 classical as the major epidemic strains over the last fifteen years, we investigated the potential role of MSHA in mediating adherence to plankton. We found that mutation of mshA in V. cholerae O1 El Tor significantly diminished, but did not eliminate, adherence to exoskeletons of the planktonic crustacean Daphnia pulex. The effect of the mutation was more pronounced for V. cholerae O139, essentially eliminating adherence. Adherence of the V. cholerae O1 classical mshA mutant was unaffected. The results suggest that MSHA is a factor contributing to the ability of V. cholerae to adhere to plankton. The results also showed that both biotypes of V. cholerae O1 utilize factors in addition to MSHA for zooplankton adherence. The expression of MSHA and these additional, yet to be defined, adherence factors differ in a serogroup- and biotype-specific manner.
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- D A Chiavelli
- Department of Biology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
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Heidelberg JF, Eisen JA, Nelson WC, Clayton RA, Gwinn ML, Dodson RJ, Haft DH, Hickey EK, Peterson JD, Umayam L, Gill SR, Nelson KE, Read TD, Tettelin H, Richardson D, Ermolaeva MD, Vamathevan J, Bass S, Qin H, Dragoi I, Sellers P, McDonald L, Utterback T, Fleishmann RD, Nierman WC, White O, Salzberg SL, Smith HO, Colwell RR, Mekalanos JJ, Venter JC, Fraser CM. DNA sequence of both chromosomes of the cholera pathogen Vibrio cholerae. Nature 2000; 406:477-83. [PMID: 10952301 PMCID: PMC8288016 DOI: 10.1038/35020000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1310] [Impact Index Per Article: 54.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
Here we determine the complete genomic sequence of the gram negative, gamma-Proteobacterium Vibrio cholerae El Tor N16961 to be 4,033,460 base pairs (bp). The genome consists of two circular chromosomes of 2,961,146 bp and 1,072,314 bp that together encode 3,885 open reading frames. The vast majority of recognizable genes for essential cell functions (such as DNA replication, transcription, translation and cell-wall biosynthesis) and pathogenicity (for example, toxins, surface antigens and adhesins) are located on the large chromosome. In contrast, the small chromosome contains a larger fraction (59%) of hypothetical genes compared with the large chromosome (42%), and also contains many more genes that appear to have origins other than the gamma-Proteobacteria. The small chromosome also carries a gene capture system (the integron island) and host 'addiction' genes that are typically found on plasmids; thus, the small chromosome may have originally been a megaplasmid that was captured by an ancestral Vibrio species. The V. cholerae genomic sequence provides a starting point for understanding how a free-living, environmental organism emerged to become a significant human bacterial pathogen.
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- John F. Heidelberg
- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
- Present Address: Celera Genomics, 45 West Gude Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850 USA
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- Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 701 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, 21202 Maryland USA
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, 20742 Maryland USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue , Boston, 02115 Massachusetts USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
- Present Address: Celera Genomics, 45 West Gude Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850 USA
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- The Institute for Genomic Research, 9712 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, 20850 Maryland USA
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Attridge SR, Voss E, Manning PA. Pathogenic and vaccine significance of toxin-coregulated pili of Vibrio cholerae E1 Tor. J Biotechnol 1999; 73:109-17. [PMID: 10486921 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1656(99)00114-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Vibrio cholerae O1 strains are classified into one of two biotypes, classical and E1 Tor, the latter being primarily responsible for cholera cases worldwide since 1961. Recent studies in our laboratory have focused upon the pathogenic and vaccine significance of the toxin-coregulated pili (TCP) produced by strains of E1 Tor biotype. Mutants in which the tcpA gene (encoding the pilin subunit protein) has been inactivated are dramatically attenuated in the infant mouse cholera model, showing markedly reduced colonisation potential in mixed-infection competition experiments. Significantly, in the vaccine context, antibodies to TCP are sufficient to prevent experimental infection, although our data suggest that this protective effect might be limited to strains of homologous biotype. Since we have shown that tcpA sequences are conserved within a biotype but differ between biotypes, this latter observation suggests that the biotype-restricted pilin epitopes might have greater vaccine significance. Similar studies indicate that TCP also play a critical role in colonisation by strains of the recently-recognised O139 serogroup, which is thought to have evolved from an O1 E1 Tor strain. In contrast to the effect of introducing mutations in the tcpA gene, strains carrying inactivated mshA genes (encoding the subunit of the mannose-sensitive haemagglutinin pilus) show unaltered in vivo behaviour. Consistent with this finding is our inability to demonstrate any protective effect associated with antibodies to MSHA. Ongoing approaches to vaccine development are variously aimed at improving the immunogenicity of the current inactivated whole-cell vaccine, or assessing the field efficacy of a promising live attenuated strain. The possible implications of our findings are discussed in relation to both of these options.
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- S R Attridge
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Adelaide, Australia.
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Watnick PI, Fullner KJ, Kolter R. A role for the mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin in biofilm formation by Vibrio cholerae El Tor. J Bacteriol 1999; 181:3606-9. [PMID: 10348878 PMCID: PMC93833 DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.11.3606-3609.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 205] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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While much has been learned regarding the genetic basis of host-pathogen interactions, less is known about the molecular basis of a pathogen's survival in the environment. Biofilm formation on abiotic surfaces represents a survival strategy utilized by many microbes. Here it is shown that Vibrio cholerae El Tor does not use the virulence-associated toxin-coregulated pilus to form biofilms on borosilicate but rather uses the mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin (MSHA) pilus, which plays no role in pathogenicity. In contrast, attachment of V. cholerae to chitin is shown to be independent of the MSHA pilus, suggesting divergent pathways for biofilm formation on nutritive and nonnutritive abiotic surfaces.
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- P I Watnick
- Infectious Disease Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
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Fullner KJ, Mekalanos JJ. Genetic characterization of a new type IV-A pilus gene cluster found in both classical and El Tor biotypes of Vibrio cholerae. Infect Immun 1999; 67:1393-404. [PMID: 10024587 PMCID: PMC96473 DOI: 10.1128/iai.67.3.1393-1404.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The Vibrio cholerae genome contains a 5.4-kb pil gene cluster that resembles the Aeromonas hydrophila tap gene cluster and other type IV-A pilus assembly operons. The region consists of five complete open reading frames designated pilABCD and yacE, based on the nomenclature of related genes from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli K-12. This cluster is present in both classical and El Tor biotypes, and the pilA and pilD genes are 100% conserved. The pilA gene encodes a putative type IV pilus subunit. However, deletion of pilA had no effect on either colonization of infant mice or adherence to HEp-2 cells, demonstrating that pilA does not encode the primary subunit of a pilus essential for these processes. The pilD gene product is similar to other type IV prepilin peptidases, proteins that process type IV signal sequences. Mutational analysis of the pilD gene showed that pilD is essential for secretion of cholera toxin and hemagglutinin-protease, mannose-sensitive hemagglutination (MSHA), production of toxin-coregulated pili, and colonization of infant mice. Defects in these functions are likely due to the lack of processing of N termini of four Eps secretion proteins, four proteins of the MSHA cluster, and TcpB, all of which contain type IV-A leader sequences. Some pilD mutants also showed reduced adherence to HEp-2 cells, but this defect could not be complemented in trans, indicating that the defect may not be directly due to a loss of pilD. Taken together, these data demonstrate the effectiveness of the V. cholerae genome project for rapid identification and characterization of potential virulence factors.
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- K J Fullner
- Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Sasmal D, Guhathakurta B, Ghosh AN, Pal CR, Datta A. Purification of a mannose/glucose-specific hemagglutinin/lectin from a Vibrio cholerae O1 strain. FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY 1999; 23:221-7. [PMID: 10219594 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695x.1999.tb01242.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A cell-associated mannose/glucose-specific hemagglutinin (MSHA) has been purified from a strain of Vibrio cholerae O1 by chromatography on a chitin column followed by affinity purification on Sephadex G100. The purified protein gave a single stained band of 40 kDa by SDS-PAGE, exhibited high affinity towards D-mannose and D-glucose but was resistant to L-fucose and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine. The purified MSHA was revealed as a globular form of protein under electron microscope. In immunodiffusion tests the purified MSHA produced a single precipitin band against homologous antisera and antisera raised against the whole cell bacteria without any reactivity towards antisera raised against the purified N-acetyl-D-glucosamine-specific lectin of the same bacterial strain. Immunogold labelling confirmed the location of hemagglutinin on the surface of the bacteria. Purified MSHA reacted strongly with sera from convalescent cholera patients in immunodiffusion tests.
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- D Sasmal
- Department of Biochemistry, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Calcutta, India.
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Marsh JW, Taylor RK. Genetic and transcriptional analyses of the Vibrio cholerae mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin type 4 pilus gene locus. J Bacteriol 1999; 181:1110-7. [PMID: 9973335 PMCID: PMC93486 DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.4.1110-1117.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/1998] [Accepted: 11/24/1998] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin (MSHA) of the Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype is a member of the family of type 4 pili. Type 4 pili are found on the surface of a variety of gram-negative bacteria and have demonstrated importance as host colonization factors, bacteriophage receptors, and mediators of DNA transfer. The gene locus required for the assembly and secretion of the MSHA pilus has been localized to a 16.7-kb region of the V. cholerae chromosome. Sixteen genes required for hemagglutination, including five that encode prepilin or prepilin-like proteins, have been identified. Examination of MSHA-specific cDNAs has localized two promoters that drive expression of these genes. This evidence indicates that the MSHA gene locus is transcriptionally organized into two operons, one encoding the secretory components and the other encoding the structural subunits, an arrangement unique among previously characterized type 4 pilus loci. The genes flanking the MSHA locus encode proteins that show homology to YhdA and MreB of Escherichia coli. In E. coli, the yhdA and mreB genes are adjacent to each other on the chromosome. The finding that the MSHA locus lies between these two E. coli homologs and that it is flanked by a 7-bp direct repeat suggests that the MSHA locus may have been acquired as a mobile genetic element.
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- J W Marsh
- Department of Microbiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
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Faruque SM, Albert MJ, Mekalanos JJ. Epidemiology, genetics, and ecology of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 1998; 62:1301-14. [PMID: 9841673 PMCID: PMC98947 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.62.4.1301-1314.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 620] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Cholera caused by toxigenic Vibrio cholerae is a major public health problem confronting developing countries, where outbreaks occur in a regular seasonal pattern and are particularly associated with poverty and poor sanitation. The disease is characterized by a devastating watery diarrhea which leads to rapid dehydration, and death occurs in 50 to 70% of untreated patients. Cholera is a waterborne disease, and the importance of water ecology is suggested by the close association of V. cholerae with surface water and the population interacting with the water. Cholera toxin (CT), which is responsible for the profuse diarrhea, is encoded by a lysogenic bacteriophage designated CTXPhi. Although the mechanism by which CT causes diarrhea is known, it is not clear why V. cholerae should infect and elaborate the lethal toxin in the host. Molecular epidemiological surveillance has revealed clonal diversity among toxigenic V. cholerae strains and a continual emergence of new epidemic clones. In view of lysogenic conversion by CTXPhi as a possible mechanism of origination of new toxigenic clones of V. cholerae, it appears that the continual emergence of new toxigenic strains and their selective enrichment during cholera outbreaks constitute an essential component of the natural ecosystem for the evolution of epidemic V. cholerae strains and genetic elements that mediate the transfer of virulence genes. The ecosystem comprising V. cholerae, CTXPhi, the aquatic environment, and the mammalian host offers an understanding of the complex relationship between pathogenesis and the natural selection of a pathogen.
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- S M Faruque
- Molecular Genetics Laboratory, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh.
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Jouravleva EA, McDonald GA, Marsh JW, Taylor RK, Boesman-Finkelstein M, Finkelstein RA. The Vibrio cholerae mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin is the receptor for a filamentous bacteriophage from V. cholerae O139. Infect Immun 1998; 66:2535-9. [PMID: 9596713 PMCID: PMC108235 DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.6.2535-2539.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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We previously isolated from a 1994 isolate of Vibrio cholerae O139 a filamentous lysogenic bacteriophage, choleraphage 493, which inhibits pre-O139 but not post-O139 El Tor biotype V. cholerae strains in plaque assays. We investigated the role of the mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin (MSHA) type IV pilus as a receptor in phage 493 infection. Spontaneous, Tn5 insertion, and mshA deletion mutants are resistant to 493 infection. Susceptibility is restored by mshA complementation of deletion mutants. Additionally, the 493 phage titer is reduced by adsorption with MSHA-positive strains but not with a DeltamshA1 strain. Monoclonal antibody against MSHA inhibits plaque formation. We conclude that MSHA is the receptor for phage 493. The emergence and decline of O139 in India and Bangladesh are correlated with the susceptibility and resistance of El Tor strains to 493. However, mshA gene sequences of post-O139 strains are identical to those of susceptible pre-O139 isolates, indicating that phage resistance of El Tor is not due to a change in mshA. Classical biotype strains are (with rare exceptions) hemagglutinin negative and resistant to 493 in plaque assays. Nevertheless, they express the mshA pilin gene. They can be infected with 493 and produce low levels of phage DNA, like post-O139 El Tor strains. Resistance to 493 in plaque assays is thus not equivalent to resistance to infection. The ability of filamentous phages, such as 493, to transfer large amounts of DNA provides them, additionally, with the potential for quantum leaps in both identity and pathogenicity, such as the conversion of El Tor to O139.
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- E A Jouravleva
- Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65212, USA
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Tacket CO, Taylor RK, Losonsky G, Lim Y, Nataro JP, Kaper JB, Levine MM. Investigation of the roles of toxin-coregulated pili and mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin pili in the pathogenesis of Vibrio cholerae O139 infection. Infect Immun 1998; 66:692-5. [PMID: 9453628 PMCID: PMC107958 DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.2.692-695.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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In this study, adult volunteers were fed tcpA and mshA deletion mutants of V. cholerae O139 strain CVD 112 to determine the role of toxin-coregulated pili (TCP) and mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin (MSHA) in intestinal colonization. Eight of 10 volunteers who received CVD 112 or CVD 112 delta mshA shed the vaccine strains in their stools; the geometric mean peak excretion for both groups was 1.4 x 10(5) CFU/g of stool. In contrast, only one of nine recipients of CVD 112 delta tcpA shed vibrios in his stool (P < 0.01); during the first 24 h after inoculation, 3 x 10(2) CFU/g was recovered from this volunteer. All recipients of CVD 112 and 8 (80%) of the recipients of CVD 112 delta mshA developed at least a fourfold rise in vibriocidal titer after immunization. In contrast, only one (11%) of the nine recipients of CVD 112 delta tcpA developed a fourfold rise in vibriocidal titer (P < 0.01). We conclude that TCP are an important colonization factor of V. cholerae O139 and probably of El Tor V. cholerae O1. In contrast, MSHA does not appear to promote intestinal colonization in humans.
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- C O Tacket
- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA.
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Falero G, Rodríguez BL, Valmaseda T, Pérez ME, Pérez JL, Fando R, Robert A, Campos J, Silva A, Sierra G, Benítez JA. Production and characterization of a monoclonal antibody against mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin of Vibrio cholerae. Hybridoma (Larchmt) 1998; 17:63-7. [PMID: 9523239 DOI: 10.1089/hyb.1998.17.63] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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We have generated murine monoclonal antibodies (MAb) against Vibrio cholerae mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin (MSHA) using conventional hybridoma procedures. Seven hybridomas were obtained and one characterized. Hybridoma 2F12/F1 secreted an antibody of the IgG3 type that reacted with a 17-kDa antigen corresponding to the product of the mshA gene. This MAb inhibited mannose-sensitive agglutination of chicken erythrocytes by EL tor and O139 vibrios. Vibrios expressing MSHA activity inhibited binding of the antibody secreted by 2F12/F1 to MSHA-coated microtiter plates.
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- G Falero
- Departamento de Anticuerpos Monoclonales, Instituto Finlay, La Habana, Cuba
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Slauch J, Taylor R, Maloy S. Survival in a cruel world: how Vibrio cholerae and Salmonella respond to an unwilling host. Genes Dev 1997; 11:1761-74. [PMID: 9242485 DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.14.1761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- J Slauch
- Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801, USA
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Qadri F, Jonson G, Begum YA, Wennerås C, Albert MJ, Salam MA, Svennerholm AM. Immune response to the mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin in patients with cholera due to Vibrio cholerae O1 and O0139. CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY IMMUNOLOGY 1997; 4:429-34. [PMID: 9220159 PMCID: PMC170545 DOI: 10.1128/cdli.4.4.429-434.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin (MSHA) is a type 4 pilus present in Vibrio cholerae O1 strains of the El Tor biotype, as well as in strains of serogroup O139. It has been shown to be a colonization antigen in animal models. The aim of this study was to investigate systemic and local antibody responses to MSHA in adult patients with cholera due to V. cholerae O1 and O139. Twenty-four of 28 (86%) patients with O1 cholera and 11 of 17 (65%) patients with O139 cholera showed significant increases in MSHA-specific immunoglobulin A (IgA) and IgM antibody-secreting cells (ASCs) 7 days after the onset of disease. However, the magnitude of the ASC response in O1 cholera patients was significantly higher than that in the O139 cholera patients in both IgA-producing (P = 0.015) and IgM-producing (P = 0.029) cells. Both groups of patients responded with antibody responses to MSHA in plasma, seroconverting with both IgA (63 to 70% of patients) and IgG (43 to 59% of patients) antibodies. Compared to the MSHA-specific antibody levels determined in healthy controls (n = 10), more than 90% of O1 and O139 cholera patients showed responses to MSHA of both the IgA and the IgG isotypes. About 70% of the patients in both groups also had antibody responses to MSHA in their feces. In summary, we demonstrated that MSHA is immunogenic, giving rise to both systemic and local antibodies in patients with cholera due to both O1 and O139 serogroups.
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- F Qadri
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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The toxin co-regulated pilus (TCP) has been identified as a critical colonization factor in both animal models and humans for Vibrio cholerae O1. The major pilin subunit, TcpA (and also TcpB), is similar to type-4 pilins but TCP probably more appropriately belongs to a sub-class which includes the bundle-forming pilus of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli. The genes for TCP biosynthesis and assembly are clustered with the exception of housekeeping functions such as TcpG (=DsbA, a periplasmic disulfide bond epimerase). The nt sequences from El Tor and classical strains show only minor differences corresponding to the major regulatory regions and in TcpA itself. These differences are thought to account for the alternate conditions required for expression of TCP by the two biotypes and the antigenic variation and lack of cross-protection. Aside from the TcpA only a few of the proteins have had their roles in TCP biogenesis defined. Regulation of TCP is controlled by the ToxR regulon via ToxT with a possible involvement of TcpP and the cAMP-CRP system. Experiments using the infant mouse cholera model have now shown that TCP is a colonization factor and protective antigen for both classical and El Tor O1 strains and in the O139 Bengal serotype and that the mannose-sensitive haemagglutinin pilus does not appear to play a comparable role.
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- P A Manning
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Adelaide, Australia.
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Jonson G, Osek J, Svennerholm AM, Holmgren J. Immune mechanisms and protective antigens of Vibrio cholerae serogroup O139 as a basis for vaccine development. Infect Immun 1996; 64:3778-85. [PMID: 8751929 PMCID: PMC174293 DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.9.3778-3785.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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We have characterized 11 isolates of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal with regard to properties deemed to be relevant for development of a vaccine against O139 cholera. For most strains two colony variants, A and B, which are nonhemolytic and hemolytic, respectively, were detected on blood agar. The A and B variants were associated with high- and low-level production of soluble hemagglutinin-protease, respectively. However, on Luria-Bertani agar both types formed opaque colonies, which has been shown to be associated with capsule formation. Interestingly, under the stationary tube-shaken flask culture conditions in yeast extract-peptone water medium which were used to stimulate the production of cholera toxin (CT) and toxin-coregulated pili, B variants constitutively produced CT and TcpA, two ToxR-regulated proteins, at 28 and 37 degrees C, whereas the production of these proteins by A variants was downregulated at the higher temperature. One of the strains, 4260B, having a well-exposed O antigen and capsule and the capacity to produce large amounts of TcpA, CT, and mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin pili but minimal amounts of the proteolytic soluble hemagglutinin, was selected to produce antibacterial antisera and as a challenge strain in protection studies using the rabbit ileal loop model. Rabbit antisera to live, heat-killed, or formalin-killed O139 vibrios or to purified O139 lipopoly-saccharide (LPS) as well as monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to O139 LPS agglutinated all O139 isolates. However, when A and B variants of strain 4260 were tested for sensitivity to vibriocidal activity of these antibody preparations, only the B variant was killed. All of the antisera against live or killed O139 vibrios conferred passive protection against fluid accumulation induced by the challenge strain. The protective effects of the antisera were correlated to anti-LPS antibody titers rather than to titers against whole bacteria that had been grown for toxin-coregulated pilus expression. This protection was considerably higher than that conferred by antisera to classical, EI Tor, or recombinantly produced (classical) CT or CTB. Furthermore, MAbs to O139 LPS and CTB-CT exhibited a strong synergistic protection against O139 challenge irrespective of the level of sensitivity of challenge strains to O139 LPS MAbs in vibriocidal assays in vitro.
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- G Jonson
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Göteborg University, Sweden
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Attridge SR, Manning PA, Holmgren J, Jonson G. Relative significance of mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin and toxin-coregulated pili in colonization of infant mice by Vibrio cholerae El Tor. Infect Immun 1996; 64:3369-73. [PMID: 8757877 PMCID: PMC174231 DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.8.3369-3373.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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A previously described in-frame deletion in mshA--the gene encoding the structural subunit of the mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin pilus--has been introduced into the chromosome of three El Tor O1 strains of Vibrio cholerae. None of the deltamshA mutants showed significant attenuation or loss of colonization potential in the infant mouse cholera model. A second mutation, created by insertion of a kanamycin resistance cartridge into deltamshA, also failed to affect in vivo behavior. In contrast, strains carrying mutations in tcpA (encoding the monomer of the toxin-coregulated pilus [TCP]) were markedly attenuated and showed dramatically impaired colonization. This result was in line with those of previous studies. Protection tests performed with antibodies to TCP and to MshA showed that only the former were able to confer immunity against El Tor O1 challenge in this model. Studies with mutants constructed from two O139 strains similarly suggest that TCP but not mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin pili are critical for colonization by strains of this serogroup.
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- S R Attridge
- Microbial Pathogenesis Unit, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Aldelaide, South Australia
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Thelin KH, Taylor RK. Toxin-coregulated pilus, but not mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin, is required for colonization by Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype and O139 strains. Infect Immun 1996; 64:2853-6. [PMID: 8698524 PMCID: PMC174155 DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.7.2853-2856.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 245] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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The relative contributions of toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP) and cell-associated mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin (MSHA) to the colonization ability of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype strains and O139 Bengal strains was determined by using isogenic parental and in-frame deletion mutant pairs in the infant mouse cholera model. Both the El Tor and O139 tcpA mutant strains showed a dramatic defect in colonization as indicated by their competitive indices, whereas deletion of mshA had a negligible effect on colonization in either background.
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- K H Thelin
- Department of Microbiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA
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Mukhopadhyay S, Ghosh C, Ghose AC. Phenotypic expression of a mannose-sensitive hemagglutinin by a Vibrio cholerae O1 E1Tor strain and evaluation of its role in intestinal adherence and colonization. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1996; 138:227-32. [PMID: 9026451 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1996.tb08162.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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A Vibrio cholerae O1 strain (1150) of the EIT or biotype and Ogawa serotype with haemagglutination (HA) activity was subjected to TnphoA mutagenesis. Out of several mutants isolated, one HA- and another HA+ mutant were further characterised. The HA- mutant showed about 50% reduction in its intestinal adherence capacity in vitro and about 9-fold decrease of its colonisation ability in vivo, as compared to the wild-type strain. Subsequent studies showed that the HA activity of strain 1150 was mediated by a mannose-sensitive haemagglutinin (MSHA). Thus, the phenotypic expression of MSHA appears to be partly responsible for the intestinal adherence and colonisation properties of strain 1150.
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- S Mukhopadhyay
- Department of Microbiology, Bose Institute, Calcutta, India
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Sperandio V, Girón JA, Silveira WD, Kaper JB. The OmpU outer membrane protein, a potential adherence factor of Vibrio cholerae. Infect Immun 1995; 63:4433-8. [PMID: 7591082 PMCID: PMC173631 DOI: 10.1128/iai.63.11.4433-4438.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Expression of the OmpU outer membrane protein of Vibrio cholerae is positively regulated by toxR, which also regulates critical virulence factors such as cholera toxin and the toxin-coregulated pilus colonization factor. In this study, we have characterized the 38-kDa OmpU protein and investigated its role in the adhesion of V. cholerae to mammalian cells. The amino-terminal sequence of OmpU has similarity with the sequences of Haemophilus influenzae HMW1 and HMW2 adhesins, which, in turn, also have similarity with the sequence of Bordetella pertussis filamentous hemagglutinin. A monoclonal antibody directed against FHA recognized both V. cholerae OmpU and Escherichia coli OmpA, and polyclonal anti-OmpU antibodies recognized FHA and E. coli OmpA, suggesting the existence of common epitopes among these proteins. OmpU was strongly recognized by convalescent-phase serum from volunteers experimentally infected with virulent V. cholerae strains, indicating that OmpU is immunogenic and produced in vivo. OmpU selectively bound to fibronectin and to an arginine-glycine-asparagine (RGD) tripeptide but not to other matrix glycoproteins tested such as collagen or laminin. Antibodies directed against OmpU or their F(ab)2 fragments completely inhibited adhesion of several V. cholerae strains to HeLa, HEp-2, Caco-2, and Henle 407 epithelial cells and also inhibited intestinal colonization and conferred protection in newborn mice against both biotypes (El Tor and classical) of V. cholerae O1. Collectively, these data indicate that OmpU has adhesive properties which may play a role in the pathogenesis of cholera.
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- V Sperandio
- Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA
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Castillo L, Castillo D, Silva W, Zapata L, Reid M, Ulloa MT, Seoane M, Maldonado A, Valenzuela ME, Bustos R. Development of highly specific monoclonal antibodies for the diagnosis of Vibrio cholerae 01. Hybridoma (Larchmt) 1995; 14:271-8. [PMID: 7590791 DOI: 10.1089/hyb.1995.14.271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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We report here the development of two monoclonal antibodies, termed 5G8 and 5C12, belonging to the IgM and IgG1 class, respectively, suitable for the identification of Vibrio cholerae 01 in clinical and environmental samples. The specificities of the monoclonals were evaluated by ELISA and indirect immunofluorescent microscopy of microorganisms normally present in stool samples and with two bacterial panels. One panel included 72 potentially antigenically related bacterial strains and the second panel included 20 pathogenic bacterial strains involved in diarrhea cases. The results of these extensive analyses indicate that monoclonal antibodies 5G8 and 5C12 are highly specific and suitable for the clinical diagnosis of Vibrio cholerae 01 in human stool samples by indirect immunofluorescent microscopy. Although the antigenic sites recognized by these antibodies were not identified in this study, the observation of Western blot patterns suggested that 5G8 and 5C12 monoclonal antibodies bind to LPS epitopes, a good structural marker for the detection of V. cholerae 01 because it is present in all bacterial cell walls.
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- L Castillo
- Departamento de Laboratorios de Salud, Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile, Santiago
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Nagayama K, Oguchi T, Arita M, Honda T. Purification and characterization of a cell-associated hemagglutinin of Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Infect Immun 1995; 63:1987-92. [PMID: 7729912 PMCID: PMC173254 DOI: 10.1128/iai.63.5.1987-1992.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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We found a positive correlation between cell-associated mannose-sensitive hemagglutination and adherence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus to rabbit enterocytes by investigating 35 strains of V. parahaemolyticus for cell-associated hemagglutinin (cHA) and for the ability to adhere to the enterocytes. We purified a mannose-sensitive cHA from a Kanagawa phenomenon-positive clinical strain of V. parahaemolyticus that exhibited a high level of mannose-sensitive hemagglutination and strongly adhered to the enterocytes. The purified cHA is a heat-labile, tetrameric protein consisting of four identical subunits of approximately 26 kDa each. The adherence to rabbit enterocytes was inhibited in a dose-dependent manner by pretreatment of the bacterial cells with D-mannose and with the Fab fraction of immunoglobulin G against the purified cHA. Furthermore, pretreatment of the enterocytes with the purified cHA inhibited the adherence of V. parahaemolyticus. Immunogold electron microscopy revealed that the cHA is located on the bacterial cell surface and is not associated with pili. These results suggest that cHA is involved in the adherence mechanisms of V. parahaemolyticus to the enterocytes and that the receptors for cHA on the enterocyte appear to be a D-mannose-containing compound.
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- K Nagayama
- Department of Bacterial Infections, Osaka University, Japan
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