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Shuel M, Knox NC, Tsang RSW. Global population structure of Haemophilus influenzae serotype a (Hia) and emergence of invasive Hia disease: capsule switching or capsule replacement? Can J Microbiol 2021; 67:875-884. [PMID: 34379993 DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2021-0152] [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]
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The population structure of Hia was examined by interrogation of the H. influenzae MLST website. There were 196 entries of Hia with 55 sequence types (STs) identified (as of September 3, 2020). BURST analysis clustered related STs into four complexes with ST-23, ST-4, ST-21 and ST-62 identified as their ancestral STs. The majority of Hia entries (73.4%) and STs (65.5%) were identified as clonal division I (ST-23 and the ST-4 complexes). Only 43 (21.9%) entries and 14 STs (25.5%) were identified as clonal division II (ST-62 and ST-21 complexes). Current data suggested most invasive Hia belonged to clonal division I and the ST-23 complex while most clonal division II Hia were respiratory isolates with the exception of ST-62 which was common among invasive Hia in the U.S. southwest. Comparison of the capsule bexABCD genes from clonal divisions I and II strains showed sequence diversity with variations following the pattern of clonal divisions. Evidence from the literature and the current study suggests recent emergence of invasive Hia might be related to capsule replacement subsequent to the implementation of the Hib conjugate vaccine and possibly exacerbated by other conjugate vaccines that may have altered the microbial flora of the human respiratory tract.
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- Michelle Shuel
- National Microbiology Laboratory, 85072, 1015 Arlington Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3E 3R2;
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- Public Health Agency of Canada, National Microbiology Laboratory, 1015 Arlington Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3E 3R2.,University of Manitoba, 8664, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Room 543 - 745 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3E 0J9;
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- CNS Infection Division and Vaccine Preventable Bacterial Diseases Division,, 1015 Arlington Street,, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3E 3R2;
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Tsang RSW. A Narrative Review of the Molecular Epidemiology and Laboratory Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Bacterial Meningitis Agents: Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae and Streptococcus agalactiae. Microorganisms 2021; 9:449. [PMID: 33671611 PMCID: PMC7926440 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9020449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2021] [Revised: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 02/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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This narrative review describes the public health importance of four most common bacterial meningitis agents, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae, and S. agalactiae (group B Streptococcus). Three of them are strict human pathogens that normally colonize the nasopharynx and may invade the blood stream to cause systemic infections and meningitis. S. agalactiae colonizes the genito-gastrointestinal tract and is an important meningitis agent in newborns, but also causes invasive infections in infants or adults. These four bacteria have polysaccharide capsules that protect them against the host complement defense. Currently licensed conjugate vaccines (against S. pneumoniae, H. influenza, and N. meningitidis only but not S. agalactiae) can induce protective serum antibodies in infants as young as two months old offering protection to the most vulnerable groups, and the ability to eliminate carriage of homologous serotype strains in vaccinated subjects lending further protection to those not vaccinated through herd immunity. However, the serotype-specific nature of these vaccines have driven the bacteria to adapt by mechanisms that affect the capsule antigens through either capsule switching or capsule replacement in addition to the possibility of unmasking of strains or serotypes not covered by the vaccines. The post-vaccine molecular epidemiology of vaccine-preventable bacterial meningitis is discussed based on findings obtained with newer genomic laboratory surveillance methods.
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- Raymond S W Tsang
- Laboratory for Vaccine Preventable Bacterial Diseases, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, 1015 Arlington Street, Winnipeg, MB R3E 3R2, Canada
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Giufrè M, Lindh E, Cardines R, Pezzotti P, Cerquetti M. Invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease in children in Italy, after 20 years of routine use of conjugate Hib vaccines. Vaccine 2020; 38:6533-6538. [PMID: 32859435 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.08.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Revised: 08/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/10/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib) was the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in children before the implementation of infant immunization with conjugate Hib vaccines. Despite the effectiveness of the vaccine, invasive Hib disease cases (i.e. isolation of Hib from a normally sterile site) are still reported in children. All invasive Hib disease cases in children ≤ 15 years reported through the National Surveillance System of Invasive Bacterial Disease, during 2012-2018 in Italy, were analyzed. Hib PCR-confirmed isolates were subjected to MLST and PFGE analysis. The number of copies of the capb locus, a virulence factor potentially contributing to true vaccine failures (TVFs), was determined by Southern blot analysis. Vaccine effectiveness (VE) was determined using a multiple Poisson regression model. 31 cases of invasive Hib disease in children were reported. Fourteen children were vaccinated (TVFs), 14 were unvaccinated and 2 partially vaccinated (vaccination status was unknown for 1 case). The median age of children was 12 months (range 3 months-15 years). A decrease in vaccination coverage was observed in 2014-2016 (source Ministry of Health), and a rise in incidence was documented from 2016 until 2018, especially in children < 5 years. Vaccine effectiveness was estimated to be 83% (95% CI:45-95). 24 isolates were available. The predominant ST was ST6 (70.8%). Cluster analysis of ST6 isolates by PFGE identified five variants. Six isolates (25%) contained multiple copies of the capb locus distributed among TVFs (30%) and unvaccinated children (16.7%). Our data show that both failures to vaccinate and TVFs are associated with invasive Hib disease in children in Italy, during the vaccination era. Most cases in children ≤ 2 years were vaccine-preventable, since they occurred in unvaccinated subjects (13/21 cases, 62%). No host predisposing factors for TVF were recognized. TVFs were not significantly associated with either specific genotypes or amplification status of the capb locus.
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- Maria Giufrè
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; European Program for Public Health Microbiology Training (EUPHEM), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
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Tsang RSW, Shuel M, Ahmad T, Hayden K, Knox N, Van Domselaar G, Hoang L, Tyrrell GJ, Minion J, Van Caeseele P, Kus JV, Ulanova M, Lefebvre B, Haldane D, Garceau R, German G, Zahariadis G, Hanley B, Kandola K, Patterson M. Whole genome sequencing to study the phylogenetic structure of serotype a Haemophilus influenzae recovered from patients in Canada. Can J Microbiol 2019; 66:99-110. [PMID: 31661630 DOI: 10.1139/cjm-2019-0406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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This study examined the phylogenetic structure of serotype a Haemophilus influenzae (Hia) isolates recovered from patients in Canada. Hia isolates from 490 separate patients and an American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) strain were analyzed by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), with 18 different sequence types (STs) identified. Most (85.7%) Hia patient isolates were typed as ST-23 and another 12.7% belonged to 14 different STs with 6, 5, or 4 MLST gene loci related to ST-23 (ST-23 complex). Core genome single-nucleotide variation phylogeny (SNVPhyl) on whole genome sequence (WGS) data of 121 Hia patient isolates representing all identified STs and the ATCC strain revealed 2 phylogenetic populations, with all the ST-23 complex isolates within 1 population. The other phylogenetic population contained only the ATCC strain and 3 patient isolates. Concatenated hitABC sequences retrieved from WGS data and analyzed by MEGA (Molecular Evolutionary Genetic Analysis) alignment confirmed the phylogeny obtained by SNVPhyl. The sodC gene was found only in isolates in the minor phylogenetic population. The 2 phylogenetic populations of the Canadian Hia isolates are similar to the 2 clonal divisions described for serotype b H. influenzae. Combining MLST, core SNVPhyl, and hitABC gene sequence alignment showed that most (99.4%) Canadian Hia patient isolates belonged to 1 major phylogenetic population.
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- Raymond S W Tsang
- National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.,Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- BC Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
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- Laboratoire de santé publique du Québec, Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
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- Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.,Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Communicable Disease Control Unit, Department of Health, Government of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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- Department of Health, Government of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
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- Provincial Public Health Laboratory, Eastern Health Microbiology Services, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.,Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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- Department of Health and Social Services, Government of Yukon, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
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- Department of Health and Social Services, Government of Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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- Department of Health, Government of Nunavut, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada
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Månsson V, Gilsdorf JR, Kahlmeter G, Kilian M, Kroll JS, Riesbeck K, Resman F. Capsule Typing of Haemophilus influenzae by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry. Emerg Infect Dis 2019; 24:443-452. [PMID: 29460728 PMCID: PMC5823330 DOI: 10.3201/eid2403.170459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Encapsulated Haemophilus influenzae strains belong to type-specific genetic lineages. Reliable capsule typing requires PCR, but a more efficient method would be useful. We evaluated capsule typing by using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry. Isolates of all capsule types (a−f and nontypeable; n = 258) and isogenic capsule transformants (types a−d) were investigated. Principal component and biomarker analyses of mass spectra showed clustering, and mass peaks correlated with capsule type-specific genetic lineages. We used 31 selected isolates to construct a capsule typing database. Validation with the remaining isolates (n = 227) showed 100% sensitivity and 92.2% specificity for encapsulated strains (a−f; n = 61). Blinded validation of a supplemented database (n = 50) using clinical isolates (n = 126) showed 100% sensitivity and 100% specificity for encapsulated strains (b, e, and f; n = 28). MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry is an accurate method for capsule typing of H. influenzae.
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Tsang RSW, Ulanova M. The changing epidemiology of invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease: Emergence and global presence of serotype a strains that may require a new vaccine for control. Vaccine 2017; 35:4270-4275. [PMID: 28666758 DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Revised: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 06/01/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND More than two decades after the implementation of the Hib conjugate vaccine in North America, Haemophilus influenzae serotype a (Hia) has emerged as a significant cause of invasive disease in Indigenous communities. However, little is known about the global presence of this pathogen. METHODS We interrogated the H. influenzae Multi-Locus Sequence Typing (MLST) website (https://pubmlst.org/hinfluenzae/) by selecting for serotype a records. We also updated our previous literature review on this subject matter. RESULTS Hia has been reported from at least 35 countries on six major continents. However, most Hia diseases were associated with Indigenous communities. Clonal analysis identified two clonal populations with one typified as ST-23 responsible for most invasive disease in North America and being the predominant clone described on the H. influenzae MLST website. Incidence of invasive Hia disease in Indigenous communities in North America are similar to the rates of Hib disease reported prior to the Hib conjugate vaccine era. Hia causes severe clinical diseases, such as meningitis, septicaemia, pneumonia, and septic arthritis with case-fatality rates between 5.6% and 33% depending on the age of the patient and the genetic makeup of the Hia strain. CONCLUSION Although invasive Hia disease can be found globally, the current epidemiological data suggest that this infection predominantly affects Indigenous communities in North America. The clinical disease of Hia and the clonal nature of the bacteria resemble that of Hib. The high incidence of invasive Hia disease in Indigenous communities, along with potential fatality and severe sequelae causing long-term disability in survivors, may support the development of a new Hia conjugate vaccine for protection against this infection similar in design to the one introduced in the 1990s to control invasive Hib disease.
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- Raymond S W Tsang
- Vaccine Preventable Bacterial Diseases, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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- Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
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Tsang RSW, Li YA, Mullen A, Baikie M, Whyte K, Shuel M, Tyrrell G, Rotondo JAL, Desai S, Spika J. Laboratory characterization of invasive Haemophilus influenzae isolates from Nunavut, Canada, 2000-2012. Int J Circumpolar Health 2016; 75:29798. [PMID: 26765260 PMCID: PMC4712320 DOI: 10.3402/ijch.v75.29798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2015] [Revised: 11/30/2015] [Accepted: 12/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND With invasive Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib) disease controlled by vaccination with conjugate Hib vaccines, there is concern that invasive disease due to non-serotype b strains may emerge. OBJECTIVE This study characterized invasive H. influenzae (Hi) isolates from Nunavut, Canada, in the post-Hib vaccine era. METHODS Invasive H. influenzae isolates were identified by conventional methods at local hospitals; and further characterized at the provincial and federal public health laboratories, including detection of serotype antigens and genes, multi-locus sequence typing and antibiotic susceptibility. RESULTS Of the 89 invasive H. influenzae cases identified from 2000 to 2012, 71 case isolates were available for study. There were 43 serotype a (Hia), 12 Hib, 2 Hic, 1 Hid, 1 Hie, 2 Hif and 10 were non-typeable (NT). All 43 Hia were biotype II, sequence type (ST)-23. Three related STs were found among the Hib isolates: ST-95 (n=9), ST-635 (n=2) and ST-44 (n=1). Both Hif belonged to ST-124 and the 2 Hic were typed as ST-9. The remaining Hid (ST-1288) and Hie (ST-18) belonged to 2 separate clones. Of the 10 NT strains, 3 were typed as ST-23 and the remaining 7 isolates each belonged to a unique ST. Eight Hib and 1 NT-Hi were found to be resistant to ampicillin due to β-lactamase production. No resistance to other antibiotics was detected. CONCLUSION During the period of 2000-2012, Hia was the predominant serotype causing invasive disease in Nunavut. This presents a public health concern due to an emerging clone of Hia as a cause of invasive H. influenzae disease and the lack of published guidelines for the prophylaxis of contacts. The clonal nature of Hia could be the result of spread within an isolated population, and/or unique characteristics of this strain to cause invasive disease. Further study of Hia in other populations may provide important information on this emerging pathogen. No antibiotic resistance was detected among Hia isolates; a small proportion of Hib and NT-Hi isolates demonstrated resistance to ampicillin due to β-lactamase production.
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- Raymond S W Tsang
- National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba;
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- Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
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- Department of Health, Government of Nunavut, Iqaluit, Nunavut
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- Department of Health, Government of Nunavut, Iqaluit, Nunavut;
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- National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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- National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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- Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
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- Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
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- Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
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Identification of Haemophilus influenzae Type b Isolates by Use of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry. J Clin Microbiol 2015; 53:2215-24. [PMID: 25926500 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.00137-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2015] [Accepted: 04/27/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) is, in contrast to non-type b H. influenzae, associated with severe invasive disease, such as meningitis and epiglottitis, in small children. To date, accurate H. influenzae capsule typing requires PCR, a time-consuming and cumbersome method. Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) provides rapid bacterial diagnostics and is increasingly used in clinical microbiology laboratories. Here, MALDI-TOF MS was evaluated as a novel approach to separate Hib from other H. influenzae. PCR-verified Hib and non-Hib reference isolates were selected based on genetic and spectral characteristics. Mass spectra of reference isolates were acquired and used to generate different classification algorithms for Hib/non-Hib differentiation using both ClinProTools and the MALDI Biotyper software. A test series of mass spectra from 33 Hib and 77 non-Hib isolates, all characterized by PCR, was used to evaluate the algorithms. Several algorithms yielded good results, but the two best were a ClinProTools model based on 22 separating peaks and subtyping main spectra (MSPs) using MALDI Biotyper. The ClinProTools model had a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 99%, and the results were 98% reproducible using a different MALDI-TOF MS instrument. The Biotyper subtyping MSPs had a sensitivity of 97%, a specificity of 100%, and 93% reproducibility. Our results suggest that it is possible to use MALDI-TOF MS to differentiate Hib from other H. influenzae. This is a promising method for rapidly identifying Hib in unvaccinated populations and for the screening and surveillance of Hib carriage in vaccinated populations.
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LaCross NC, Marrs CF, Gilsdorf JR. Otitis media associated polymorphisms in the hemin receptor HemR of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. INFECTION, GENETICS AND EVOLUTION : JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES 2014; 26:47-57. [PMID: 24820341 PMCID: PMC4499511 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2014.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2013] [Revised: 04/15/2014] [Accepted: 05/02/2014] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) colonize the human pharynx asymptomatically, and are also an important cause of otitis media (OM). Previous studies have demonstrated that some genes are more prevalent in OM-causing NTHi strains than in commensal strains, suggesting a role in virulence. These studies, however, are unable to investigate the possible associations between gene polymorphisms and disease. This study examined amino acid polymorphisms and sequence diversity in a potential virulence gene, the hemin receptor hemR, from a previously characterized NTHi strain collection containing both commensal and OM organisms to identify possible associations between the polymorphisms and otitis media. The full open reading frame of hemR was sequenced from a total of 146 NTHi isolates, yielding a total of 47 unique HemR amino acid sequences. The predicted structure of HemR showed substantial similarity to a class of monomeric TonB dependent, ligand-gated channels involved in iron acquisition in other gram negative bacteria. Fifteen amino acid polymorphisms were significantly more prevalent at the 90% confidence level among commensal compared to OM isolates. Upon controlling for the confounding effect of population structure, over half of the polymorphism-otitis media relationships lost statistical significance, emphasizing the importance of assessing the effect of population structure in association studies. The seven polymorphisms that retained significance were dispersed throughout the protein in various functional and structural domains, including the signal peptide, N-terminal plug domain, and intra- and extracellular loops. The alternate amino acid of only one of these seven polymorphisms was more common among OM isolates, demonstrating a strong trend toward the consensus sequence among disease causing NTHi. We hypothesize that variability at these positions in HemR may result in a reduced ability to acquire iron, rendering NTHi with such versions of the gene less fit for survival in the middle ear environment.
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- Nathan C LaCross
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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TSANG RSW, BRUCE MG, LEM M, BARRETO L, ULANOVA M. A review of invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease in the Indigenous populations of North America. Epidemiol Infect 2014; 142:1344-54. [PMID: 24598220 PMCID: PMC9151223 DOI: 10.1017/s0950268814000405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2013] [Revised: 01/30/2014] [Accepted: 02/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Historically, the highest incidence rates of invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease in the world were found in North American and Australian Indigenous children. Although immunization against H. influenzae type b (Hib) led to a marked decrease in invasive Hib disease in countries where it was implemented, this disease has not been eliminated and its rates in Indigenous communities remain higher than in the general North American population. In this literature review, we examined the epidemiology of invasive H. influenzae disease in the pre-Hib vaccine era, effect of carriage on disease epidemiology, immune response to H. influenzae infection and Hib vaccination in Indigenous and Caucasian children, and the changing epidemiology after Hib conjugate vaccine has been in use for more than two decades in North America. We also explored reasons behind the continued high rates of invasive H. influenzae disease in Indigenous populations in North America. H. influenzae type a (Hia) has emerged as a significant cause of severe disease in North American Indigenous communities. More research is needed to define the genotypic diversity of Hia and the disease burden that it causes in order to determine if a Hia vaccine is required to protect the vulnerable populations.
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- R. S. W. TSANG
- National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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- Arctic Investigations Program, Division of Preparedness and Emerging Infections, U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), Anchorage, AK, USA
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- Fraser Health Authority, Abbotsford, BC, Canada
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- Human Health Therapeutics Portfolio, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Medical Sciences Division, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
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Ulanova M, Tsang RSW. Haemophilus influenzae serotype a as a cause of serious invasive infections. THE LANCET. INFECTIOUS DISEASES 2013; 14:70-82. [PMID: 24268829 DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(13)70170-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Haemophilus influenzae, particularly H influenzae serotype b (Hib), is an important pathogen that causes serious diseases like meningitis and septicaemia. Since the introduction of Hib conjugate vaccines in the 1990s, the epidemiology of invasive H influenzae disease has changed substantially, with most infections now caused by non-Hib strains. We discuss the importance of H influenzae serotype a (Hia) as a cause of serious morbidity and mortality and its global epidemiology, clinical presentation, microbiology, immunology, prevention, and control. Much like Hib, the capsule of Hia is an important virulence factor contributing to the development of invasive disease. Molecular typing of Hia has identified distinct clonal groups, with some linked to severe disease and high case-fatality rates. Similarities between Hia and Hib capsules, their clinical presentation, and immunology of infection suggest that a bivalent Hia-Hib capsular polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine could offer protection against these two important serotypes of H influenzae.
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- Marina Ulanova
- Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
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- National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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Identification of Haemophilus influenzae clones associated with invasive disease a decade after introduction of H. influenzae serotype b vaccination in Italy. CLINICAL AND VACCINE IMMUNOLOGY : CVI 2013; 20:1223-9. [PMID: 23761663 DOI: 10.1128/cvi.00028-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The introduction of Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib) conjugate vaccines has changed the epidemiology of invasive H. influenzae disease, with a shift in the predominant serotype from Hib to nonencapsulated H. influenzae (ncHi). The objective of this study was to identify the genotypes/clones associated with invasive H. influenzae disease in Italy. Eighty-seven H. influenzae strains isolated in the years 2009 to 2011 within the National Surveillance of Invasive Bacterial Disease program were analyzed. Strains were characterized by serotyping, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Genetic polymorphisms in the bla(TEM) gene promoter region as well as the occurrence of both adhesin genes (hmwA and hia) and the IgA1 protease-encoding gene (igaB) were also investigated. Of 87 strains, 67 were ncHi and 20 were encapsulated. Eleven strains were β-lactamase positive, harboring the bla(TEM) gene. Most bla(TEM) genes (10/11) were associated with a Pdel promoter region exhibiting a 135-bp deletion; the remaining strain possessed the Pa/Pb overlapping promoter. MLST analysis showed that encapsulated isolates were clonal, with each serotype sharing a few related sequence types (STs). Forty-six different STs were identified among the 67 ncHi strains. Despite this heterogeneity, a group of closely related STs (ST103, ST139, and ST145) encompassed almost 25% of all ncHi strains and 45.5% of the β-lactamase producers carrying the Pdel promoter. These major ST clones were found to be associated with the hmwA gene but not with the igaB gene. To conclude, although the heterogeneity of the ncHi population was confirmed, diffusion of major successful ST clones was documented.
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LaCross NC, Marrs CF, Gilsdorf JR. Population structure in nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2012; 14:125-36. [PMID: 23266487 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.11.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2012] [Revised: 11/28/2012] [Accepted: 11/30/2012] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) frequently colonize the human pharynx asymptomatically, and are an important cause of otitis media in children. Past studies have identified typeable H. influenzae as being clonal, but the population structure of NTHi has not been extensively characterized. The research presented here investigated the diversity and population structure in a well-characterized collection of NTHi isolated from the middle ears of children with otitis media or the pharynges of healthy children in three disparate geographic regions. Multilocus sequence typing identified 109 unique sequence types among 170 commensal and otitis media-associated NTHi isolates from Finland, Israel, and the US. The largest clonal complex contained only five sequence types, indicating a high level of genetic diversity. The eBURST v3, ClonalFrame 1.1, and structure 2.3.3 programs were used to further characterize diversity and population structure from the sequence typing data. Little clustering was apparent by either disease state (otitis media or commensalism) or geography in the ClonalFrame phylogeny. Population structure was clearly evident, with support for eight populations when all 170 isolates were analyzed. Interestingly, one population contained only commensal isolates, while two others consisted solely of otitis media isolates, suggesting associations between population structure and disease.
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- Nathan C LaCross
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Power PM, Bentley SD, Parkhill J, Moxon ER, Hood DW. Investigations into genome diversity of Haemophilus influenzae using whole genome sequencing of clinical isolates and laboratory transformants. BMC Microbiol 2012; 12:273. [PMID: 23176117 PMCID: PMC3539920 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-12-273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2012] [Accepted: 10/17/2012] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Haemophilus influenzae is an important human commensal pathogen associated with significant levels of disease. High-throughput DNA sequencing was used to investigate differences in genome content within this species. RESULTS Genomic DNA sequence was obtained from 85 strains of H. influenzae and from other related species, selected based on geographical site of isolation, disease association and documented genotypic and phenotypic differences. When compared by Mauve alignment these indicated groupings of H. influenzae that were consistent with previously published analyses; capsule expressing strains fell into two distinct groups and those of serotype b (Hib) were found in two closely positioned lineages. For 18 Hib strains representing both lineages we found many discrete regions (up to 40% of the total genome) displaying sequence variation when compared to a common reference strain. Evidence that this naturally occurring pattern of inter-strain variation in H. influenzae can be mediated by transformation was obtained through sequencing DNA obtained from a pool of 200 independent transformants of a recipient (strain Rd) using donor DNA from a heterologous Hib strain (Eagan). CONCLUSION Much of the inter-strain variation in genome sequence in H. influenzae is likely the result of inter-strain exchanges of DNA, most plausibly through transformation.
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- Peter M Power
- University of Oxford Department of Paediatrics, Medical Sciences Division, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK.
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Connor TR, Corander J, Hanage WP. Population subdivision and the detection of recombination in non-typable Haemophilus influenzae. MICROBIOLOGY-SGM 2012; 158:2958-2964. [PMID: 23038806 DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.063073-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The disparity in diversity between unencapsulated (non-typable; NT) and encapsulated, serotypable Haemophilus influenzae (Hi) has been recognized for some time. It has previously been suggested that the wider diversity evidenced within NTHi compared with typable lineages may be due to different rates of recombination within the encapsulated and NT populations. To examine whether there is evidence for different levels of recombination within typable and NT lineages of Hi, we performed a statistical genetic analysis of 819 distinct genotypes of Hi to explore the congruence of serotype with population genetic clustering, and to identify patterns of recombination within the Hi population. We find that a significantly larger proportion of NT isolates show evidence of recombination, compared with typable isolates, and also that when admixture is present, the total amount of recombination per strain is greater within NT isolates, compared with the typable population. Furthermore, we demonstrate significant heterogeneity in the number of admixed individuals between NT lineages themselves, while such variation was not observed in typable lineages. This variability suggests that factors other than the presence of capsule are important determinants of recombination rate in the Hi population.
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- Thomas Richard Connor
- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK.,Pathogen Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge CB22 5EZ, UK
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, PO Box 68, University of Helsinki, 00014, Finland
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- Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.,Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
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Maatallah M, Cheriaa J, Backhrouf A, Iversen A, Grundmann H, Do T, Lanotte P, Mastouri M, Elghmati MS, Rojo F, Mejdi S, Giske CG. Population structure of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from five Mediterranean countries: evidence for frequent recombination and epidemic occurrence of CC235. PLoS One 2011; 6:e25617. [PMID: 21984923 PMCID: PMC3184967 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2011] [Accepted: 09/06/2011] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Several studies in recent years have provided evidence that Pseudomonas aeruginosa has a non-clonal population structure punctuated by highly successful epidemic clones or clonal complexes. The role of recombination in the diversification of P. aeruginosa clones has been suggested, but not yet demonstrated using multi-locus sequence typing (MLST). Isolates of P. aeruginosa from five Mediterranean countries (n = 141) were subjected to pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), serotyping and PCR targeting the virulence genes exoS and exoU. The occurrence of multi-resistance (≥3 antipseudomonal drugs) was analyzed with disk diffusion according to EUCAST. MLST was performed on a subset of strains (n = 110) most of them had a distinct PFGE variant. MLST data were analyzed with Bionumerics 6.0, using minimal spanning tree (MST) as well as eBURST. Measurement of clonality was assessed by the standardized index of association (IAS). Evidence of recombination was estimated by ClonalFrame as well as SplitsTree4.0. The MST analysis connected 70 sequence types, among which ST235 was by far the most common. ST235 was very frequently associated with the O11 serotype, and frequently displayed multi-resistance and the virulence genotype exoS−/exoU+. ClonalFrame linked several groups previously identified by eBURST and MST, and provided insight to the evolutionary events occurring in the population; the recombination/mutation ratio was found to be 8.4. A Neighbor-Net analysis based on the concatenated sequences revealed a complex network, providing evidence of frequent recombination. The index of association when all the strains were considered indicated a freely recombining population. P. aeruginosa isolates from the Mediterranean countries display an epidemic population structure, particularly dominated by ST235-O11, which has earlier also been coupled to the spread of ß-lactamases in many countries.
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- Makaoui Maatallah
- Laboratoire d'Analyse, Traitement et Valorisation des Polluants de l'Environnement et des Produits, Faculté de Pharmacie, Monastir, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire d'Analyse, Traitement et Valorisation des Polluants de l'Environnement et des Produits, Faculté de Pharmacie, Monastir, Tunisia
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- Laboratoire d'Analyse, Traitement et Valorisation des Polluants de l'Environnement et des Produits, Faculté de Pharmacie, Monastir, Tunisia
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- Clinical Microbiology L2:02, MTC-Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
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- University Medical Centre Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
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- Infection Research Group, Dental Institute, King's College London and Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS and Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- CHRU de Tours, Service de Bactériologie-Virologie, Hôpital Bretonneau, Tours, France ; Université François Rabelais, Tours, France
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- Laboratoire de Microbiologie CHU Fattouma Bourguiba, Monastir, Tunisia
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- Departement of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Alfateh of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya
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- Departamento de Biotecnología Microbiana, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Campus U.A.M., Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratoire d'Analyse, Traitement et Valorisation des Polluants de l'Environnement et des Produits, Faculté de Pharmacie, Monastir, Tunisia
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- Clinical Microbiology L2:02, MTC-Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
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Genetic characterization of the capsulation locus of Haemophilus influenzae serotype e. J Clin Microbiol 2010; 48:1404-7. [PMID: 20107095 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.01721-09] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The capsulation (cap) locus of Haemophilus influenzae type e (Hie) was characterized and sequenced. No IS1016 element was found to flank the locus. The 18.2-kb locus included 14 open reading frames (ORFs), which were grouped into three functional regions. Eight new ORFs (named ecs1 to ecs8) were identified in the Hie capsule-specific region II.
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Research into Haemophilus influenzae, a commensal and pathogen of humans, has resulted in major scientific contributions to biology. The first endonucleases (restriction enzymes), which paved the way for the new genetics, and the DNA used to obtain the first complete genome sequence of a free-living organism were obtained from H. influenzae. Prevention of invasive bacterial infections of infants, such as meningitis, has been achieved using a novel class of vaccines, of which the glycoconjugates of H. influenzae were the first to be licensed. Originally fallaciously proposed to be the aetiological agent of epidemic influenza, now known to be caused by a virus, H. influenzae is a pathogen of global public health importance. Research into the pathogenesis of the infections it causes (for example, meningitis, septicaemia, pneumonia and otitis media) are case studies in understanding the molecular basis of the variation in gene expression and gene sequences that are critical to its commensal and virulence behaviour and for the strategies that can be pursued to prevent H. influenzae diseases through vaccines.
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- E Richard Moxon
- Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK
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High genetic diversity of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae isolates from two children attending a day care center. J Clin Microbiol 2008; 46:3817-21. [PMID: 18845825 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.00940-08] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Twenty-one nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) isolates from the throats of two healthy children were genotyped by multilocus sequence typing. Nine unique sequence types (STs) were identified. These STs were scattered throughout the phylogenetic tree of reported NTHi STs, demonstrating the high level of NTHi diversity found in colonized children.
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Mukundan D, Ecevit Z, Patel M, Marrs CF, Gilsdorf JR. Pharyngeal colonization dynamics of Haemophilus influenzae and Haemophilus haemolyticus in healthy adult carriers. J Clin Microbiol 2007; 45:3207-17. [PMID: 17687018 PMCID: PMC2045313 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.00492-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Haemophilus influenzae is an important cause of respiratory infections, including acute otitis media, sinusitis, and chronic bronchitis, which are preceded by asymptomatic H. influenzae colonization of the human pharynx. The aim of this study was to describe the dynamics of pharyngeal colonization by H. influenzae and an intimately related species, Haemophilus haemolyticus, in healthy adults. Throat specimens from four healthy adult carriers were screened for Haemophilus species; 860 isolates were identified as H. influenzae or H. haemolyticus based on the porphyrin test and on dependence on hemin and NAD for growth. Based on tests for hemolysis, for the presence of the 7F3 epitope of the P6 protein, and for the presence of iga in 412 of the isolates, 346 (84%) were H. influenzae, 47 (11%) were H. haemolyticus, 18 (4%) were nonhemolytic H. haemolyticus, and 1 was a variant strain. Carriers A and B were predominantly colonized with nontypeable H. influenzae, carrier C predominantly with b(-) H. influenzae mutants, and carrier D with H. haemolyticus. A total of 358 H. influenzae and H. haemolyticus isolates were genotyped by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) following SmaI or EagI digestion of their DNA, and the carriers displayed the following: carrier A had 11 unique PFGE genotypes, carrier B had 15, carrier C had 7, and carrier D had 10. Thus, adult H. influenzae and H. haemolyticus carriers are colonized with multiple unique genotypes, the colonizing strains exhibit genetic diversity, and we observed day-to-day and week-to-week variability of the genotypes. These results appear to reflect both evolutionary processes that occur among H. influenzae isolates during asymptomatic pharyngeal carriage and sample-to-sample collection bias from a large, variable population of colonizing bacteria.
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- Deepa Mukundan
- Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0244, USA
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Karlsson E, Melhus A. Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae strains with the capsule-associated insertion element IS1016 may mimic encapsulated strains. APMIS 2006; 114:633-40. [PMID: 16948816 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2006.apm_333.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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With the elimination of Haemophilus influenzae type b through vaccination, it has been suggested that other types of H. influenzae strains might acquire virulence traits and emerge as important pathogens. The gene sequence IS1016 has been associated with an increased capacity to cause severe infections. It is usually present in encapsulated strains but is sometimes harbored by nontypeable H. influenzae strains. To explore this further, 118 H. influenzae isolates, collected from both patients and healthy carriers, were investigated with PCR with reference to this gene sequence. Isolates positive for the insertion element were bio- and serotyped. The presence of hmw genes for adherence, the genetic profile, and the ability to form biofilm in vitro were investigated. A total of 15 isolates were IS1016-positive, whereof 12 were nontypeable. All 12 nontypeable isolates were obtained from healthy carriers, and 92% of the isolates were biotype I. They cross-reacted to some extent with type-specific antisera or exhibited a restricted genetic diversity like encapsulated strains. Furthermore, they lacked hmw-genes, and their ability to form biofilms was comparable with a capsule-deficient type b strain. Although this subset of strains mimicked traits usually exhibited by encapsulated strains, the isolation frequency did not seem to have been affected by vaccination.
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- Eva Karlsson
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
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Bonacorsi S, Bingen E. Molecular epidemiology of Escherichia coli causing neonatal meningitis. Int J Med Microbiol 2005; 295:373-81. [PMID: 16238014 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2005.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli is the second cause of neonatal meningitis which is a major cause of neonatal mortality and is associated with a high incidence of neurological sequelae. E. coli neonatal meningitis (ECNM) strains, as other extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli, mainly belong to the phylogenetic group B2 and to a lesser extent to group D, but are distributed in fewer clonal groups. One of these, the O18:K1:H7 clone is worldwide distributed meanwhile others such as O83:K1 and O45:K1 are restricted to some countries. Over the past few years, major progress has been made in the understanding of the pathophysiology of E. coli O18:K1:H7 neonatal meningitis. In particular, specific virulence factors have been identified and are known to be carried by ectochromosomal DNA in most cases. Molecular epidemiological studies, including characterization of virulence genotypes and phylogenetic analysis are important to lead to a comprehensive picture of the origins and spread of virulence factors within the population of ECNM strains. To date, all the known genetic determinants obtained in ECNM strains are not sufficient to explain their virulence in their globality and further studies on clonal groups different from the archetypal O18:K1:H7 clone are needed. These studies would serve to find common pathogenic mechanisms among different ECNM clonal groups that may be used as potential target for a worldwide efficacious prevention strategy.
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- Stéphane Bonacorsi
- Laboratoire d'études de génétique bactérienne dans les infections de l'enfant (EA3105), Université Denis Diderot-Paris 7, Service de Microbiologie, Hôpital Robert Debré (AP-HP), Paris, France
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Skoczynska A, Lewandowska M, Klarowicz A, Hryniewicz W. Prevalence and serotype distribution of encapsulated Haemophilus influenzae isolates from patients with lower respiratory tract infections in Poland. J Clin Microbiol 2005; 43:938-41. [PMID: 15695712 PMCID: PMC548084 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.43.2.938-941.2005] [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: 11/20/2022] Open
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Among 1,272 H. influenzae isolates obtained from patients with lower respiratory tract infections, 5.6% were found to be encapsulated. The most common were serotypes b (40.3%) and e (38.9%) followed by serotypes f (16.7%) and d (4.1%). All encapsulated isolates within a particular serotype showed high genetic homogeneity and did not produce beta-lactamases.
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- Anna Skoczynska
- Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Institute of Public Health, Chełmska 30/34, 00-725 Warsaw, Poland.
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Oueslati S, Mzoughi R, Bouallegue O, Aouni M. [Epidemiologic markers in Haemophilus influenzae]. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 53:81-7. [PMID: 15708651 DOI: 10.1016/j.patbio.2004.04.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2004] [Accepted: 04/30/2004] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Twenty-six strains of Haemophilus influenzae, isolated from diverse pathological products in two different hospitals in the center of Tunisia (Sousse-Monastir) have been compared with two different genotypic techniques: AP-PCR and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. These two techniques showed a high discriminating power. The combination of the results of both techniques were complementary and have individualized twenty-five heterogeneous patterns among the twenty-six strains. Among the strains of respiratory origin, only two were identical, they have been isolated from two patients hospitalized in the same period and the same hospital. Excepted the two above mentioned cases, this study showed a high genetical heterogeneity of the strains.
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- S Oueslati
- Laboratoire des maladies transmissibles et des substances biologiquement actives, (Lab.MDT-01), faculté de pharmacie, 5000 Monastir, Tunisia.
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Dabernat H, Pélissier R, Faucon G, Séguy M, Delmas C. Genotyping of type b Haemophilus influenzae strains, comparison of strains collected before and during vaccine availability. Med Mal Infect 2005; 35:205-12. [PMID: 15914289 DOI: 10.1016/j.medmal.2005.02.005] [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] [Received: 01/24/2005] [Accepted: 02/01/2005] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE AND METHOD Five hundred and seventy-eight strains of type b Haemophilus influenzae (521 isolated in children, and 57 in adults) were compared using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) to assess strain evolution and to study the impact of the generalization of anti-Haemophilus b (anti-Hib) vaccination in France. Among these strains, 398 (including 342 from meningitis) were isolated in 1985-1992 (pre-vaccination era), 39 (including 31 from meningitis) in 1993 (year of the generalization of anti-Hib vaccination), and 141 (including 50 from CSF) in 1994-2001 (vaccination era). RESULTS A total of 102 PFGE patterns (patterns for 1-101 isolates) were obtained after SmaI restriction of the 578 strains. The strains isolated in children were distributed in 96 patterns, and those isolated in the adult in 34 patterns. The strains isolated during the pre-vaccination era presented 94 patterns. During the vaccination era, 50% of the patterns disappeared and 12 new patterns (11.7%) including 15 strains were observed. The strains belonging to the new patterns (including the two observed in 1993) were isolated in adults (n=7) from blood culture and bronchial secretions, and children (n=9) from CSF, blood culture, and bronchial secretions. In children, among the strains associated to vaccination failure, two presented with a new pulsotype. CONCLUSION There is no evidence that the vaccination program brought about any drastic modifications in the type b strains causing meningitis or in the other type b strains in circulation whether in adults or children.
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- H Dabernat
- Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Centre National de Référence des Haemophilus influenzae, Hôpital Purpan, CHU de Purpan, 37, allées Jules-Guesde, 31073 Toulouse cédex, France.
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Feil EJ, Li BC, Aanensen DM, Hanage WP, Spratt BG. eBURST: inferring patterns of evolutionary descent among clusters of related bacterial genotypes from multilocus sequence typing data. J Bacteriol 2004; 186:1518-30. [PMID: 14973027 PMCID: PMC344416 DOI: 10.1128/jb.186.5.1518-1530.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1431] [Impact Index Per Article: 71.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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The introduction of multilocus sequence typing (MLST) for the precise characterization of isolates of bacterial pathogens has had a marked impact on both routine epidemiological surveillance and microbial population biology. In both fields, a key prerequisite for exploiting this resource is the ability to discern the relatedness and patterns of evolutionary descent among isolates with similar genotypes. Traditional clustering techniques, such as dendrograms, provide a very poor representation of recent evolutionary events, as they attempt to reconstruct relationships in the absence of a realistic model of the way in which bacterial clones emerge and diversify to form clonal complexes. An increasingly popular approach, called BURST, has been used as an alternative, but present implementations are unable to cope with very large data sets and offer crude graphical outputs. Here we present a new implementation of this algorithm, eBURST, which divides an MLST data set of any size into groups of related isolates and clonal complexes, predicts the founding (ancestral) genotype of each clonal complex, and computes the bootstrap support for the assignment. The most parsimonious patterns of descent of all isolates in each clonal complex from the predicted founder(s) are then displayed. The advantages of eBURST for exploring patterns of evolutionary descent are demonstrated with a number of examples, including the simple Spain(23F)-1 clonal complex of Streptococcus pneumoniae, "population snapshots" of the entire S. pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus MLST databases, and the more complicated clonal complexes observed for Campylobacter jejuni and Neisseria meningitidis.
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- Edward J Feil
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom.
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Augustynowicz E, Gzyl A, Szenborn L, Banys D, Gniadek G, Ślusarczyk J. Comparison of usefulness of randomly amplified polymorphic DNA and amplified-fragment length polymorphism techniques in epidemiological studies on nasopharyngeal carriage of non-typable Haemophilus influenzae. J Med Microbiol 2004; 52:1005-1014. [PMID: 14532346 DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.05341-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and automated amplified-fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) techniques with fluorescently labelled primers were used to type non-serotypable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) isolates. Eighty-seven isolates from healthy children attending day-care centres or living at orphanages in southern Poland were investigated. Through comparison of the AFLP data with RAPD analysis, it has been concluded that the discriminatory power of AFLP for NTHI typing is higher than RAPD. Generally, the NTHI isolates analysed were highly heterogeneous, as detected with a HindIII/TaqI AFLP genotyping scheme on intra/inter similarity levels of 94 and 96 % using Pearson's correlation coefficient. The range of similarity values found for isolates from children permanently residing at a particular day-care centre was much wider than that for isolates from orphanages. AFLP can efficiently access NTHI strain diversity and can monitor their turn-over for comparative typing in local and inter-local epidemiological investigations.
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- Ewa Augustynowicz
- Department of Sera and Vaccine Evaluation, National Institute of Hygiene, Chocimska 24 St, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland 2Department of Infectious Diseases of Children, Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Sera and Vaccine Evaluation, National Institute of Hygiene, Chocimska 24 St, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland 2Department of Infectious Diseases of Children, Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Sera and Vaccine Evaluation, National Institute of Hygiene, Chocimska 24 St, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland 2Department of Infectious Diseases of Children, Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Sera and Vaccine Evaluation, National Institute of Hygiene, Chocimska 24 St, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland 2Department of Infectious Diseases of Children, Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Sera and Vaccine Evaluation, National Institute of Hygiene, Chocimska 24 St, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland 2Department of Infectious Diseases of Children, Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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- Department of Sera and Vaccine Evaluation, National Institute of Hygiene, Chocimska 24 St, 00-791 Warsaw, Poland 2Department of Infectious Diseases of Children, Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
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Bouchet V, Hood DW, Li J, Brisson JR, Randle GA, Martin A, Li Z, Goldstein R, Schweda EKH, Pelton SI, Richards JC, Moxon ER. Host-derived sialic acid is incorporated into Haemophilus influenzae lipopolysaccharide and is a major virulence factor in experimental otitis media. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003; 100:8898-903. [PMID: 12855765 PMCID: PMC166410 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1432026100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Otitis media, a common and often recurrent bacterial infection of childhood, is a major reason for physician visits and the prescription of antimicrobials. Haemophilus influenzae is the cause of approximately 20% of episodes of bacterial otitis media, but most strains lack the capsule, a factor known to play a critical role in the virulence of strains causing invasive H. influenzae disease. Here we show that in capsule-deficient (nontypeable) strains, sialic acid, a terminal residue of the core sugars of H. influenzae lipopolysaccharide (LPS), is a critical virulence factor in the pathogenesis of experimental otitis media in chinchillas. We used five epidemiologically distinct H. influenzae isolates, representative of the genetic diversity of strains causing otitis media, to inoculate the middle ear of chinchillas. All animals developed acute bacterial otitis media that persisted for up to 3 wk, whereas isogenic sialic acid-deficient mutants (disrupted sialyltransferase or CMP-acetylneuraminic acid synthetase genes) were profoundly attenuated. MS analysis indicated that WT bacteria used to inoculate animals lacked any sialylated LPS glycoforms. In contrast, LPS of ex vivo organisms recovered from chinchilla middle ear exudates was sialylated. We conclude that sialylated LPS glycoforms play a key role in pathogenicity of nontypeable H. influenzae and depend on scavenging the essential precursors from the host during the infection.
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- Valérie Bouchet
- Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, 774 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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O'Neill JM, St Geme JW, Cutter D, Adderson EE, Anyanwu J, Jacobs RF, Schutze GE. Invasive disease due to nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae among children in Arkansas. J Clin Microbiol 2003; 41:3064-9. [PMID: 12843045 PMCID: PMC165342 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.41.7.3064-3069.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2002] [Revised: 11/05/2002] [Accepted: 05/06/2003] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In this study, we reviewed cases of invasive disease due to nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae among children hospitalized at Arkansas Children's Hospital from 1993 to 2001. A total of 28 cases were examined, including 21 associated with bacteremia and 4 associated with meningitis. Of the patients examined, 86% were =4 years of age, and 68% had underlying medical conditions. Characterization of the bacterial isolates by multilocus sequence type genotyping revealed significant overall genetic diversity, similar to the diversity in the general population structure for nontypeable H. influenzae. However, four separate pairs of isolates were closely related genetically, a relationship confirmed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and Southern hybridization studies using probes for the major H. influenzae adhesin genes. These results suggest that selected strains of nontypeable H. influenzae may have more invasive potential, especially in young children and patients with underlying medical conditions. At this point, the specific factors that contribute to enhanced virulence remain unclear.
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- Joshua M O'Neill
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
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Cody AJ, Field D, Feil EJ, Stringer S, Deadman ME, Tsolaki AG, Gratz B, Bouchet V, Goldstein R, Hood DW, Moxon ER. High rates of recombination in otitis media isolates of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae. INFECTION, GENETICS AND EVOLUTION : JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES 2003; 3:57-66. [PMID: 12797973 PMCID: PMC2728426 DOI: 10.1016/s1567-1348(02)00152-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Non-typeable (NT) or capsule-deficient, Haemophilus influenzae (Hi) is a common commensal of the upper respiratory tract of humans and can be pathogenic resulting in diseases such as otitis media, sinusitis and pneumonia. The lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of NTHi is a major virulence factor that displays substantial intra-strain and inter-strain variation of its oligosaccharide structures. To investigate the genetic basis of LPS variation we sequenced internal regions of each of seven genes required for the biosynthesis of either the inner or the outer core oligosaccharide structures. These sequences were obtained from 25 representative NTHi isolates from episodes of otitis media. We found abundant evidence of recombination among LPS genes of NTHi, a finding in marked contrast to previous analyses of biosynthetic genes for capsular polysaccharide, a well-documented virulence factor of Hi. We found mosaic sequences, linkage equilibrium between loci and a lack of congruence between gene trees. These high rates were not confined to LPS genes since evidence for similar amounts of recombination was also found in eight housekeeping genes in a subset of the same 25 isolates. These findings provide a population based foundation for a better understanding of the role of NTHi LPS as a virulence factor and its potential as a candidate vaccine.
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- Alison J Cody
- Molecular Infectious Diseases Group, Department of Paediatrics, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 9DS, UK.
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Meats E, Feil EJ, Stringer S, Cody AJ, Goldstein R, Kroll JS, Popovic T, Spratt BG. Characterization of encapsulated and noncapsulated Haemophilus influenzae and determination of phylogenetic relationships by multilocus sequence typing. J Clin Microbiol 2003; 41:1623-36. [PMID: 12682154 PMCID: PMC153921 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.41.4.1623-1636.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 293] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme has been developed for the unambiguous characterization of encapsulated and noncapsulated Haemophilus influenzae isolates. The sequences of internal fragments of seven housekeeping genes were determined for 131 isolates, comprising a diverse set of 104 serotype a, b, c, d, e, and f isolates and 27 noncapsulated isolates. Many of the encapsulated isolates had previously been characterized by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE), and the validity of the MLST scheme was established by the very similar clustering of isolates obtained by these methods. Isolates of serotypes c, d, e, and f formed monophyletic groups on a dendrogram constructed from the differences in the allelic profiles of the isolates, whereas there were highly divergent lineages of both serotype a and b isolates. Noncapsulated isolates were distinct from encapsulated isolates and, with one exception, were within two highly divergent clusters. The relationships between the major lineages of encapsulated H. influenzae inferred from MLEE data could not be discerned on a dendrogram constructed from differences in the allelic profiles, but were apparent on a tree reconstructed from the concatenated nucleotide sequences. Recombination has not therefore completely eliminated phylogenetic signal, and in support of this, for encapsulated isolates, there was significant congruence between many of the trees reconstructed from the sequences of the seven individual loci. Congruence was less apparent for noncapsulated isolates, suggesting that the impact of recombination is greater among noncapsulated than encapsulated isolates. The H. influenzae MLST scheme is available at www.mlst.net, it allows any isolate to be compared with those in the MLST database, and (for encapsulated isolates) it assigns isolates to their phylogenetic lineage, via the Internet.
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- Emma Meats
- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, St. Mary's Hospital, London W2 1PG, United Kingdom
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Davies RL, MacCorquodale R, Caffrey B. Diversity of avian Pasteurella multocida strains based on capsular PCR typing and variation of the OmpA and OmpH outer membrane proteins. Vet Microbiol 2003; 91:169-82. [PMID: 12458166 PMCID: PMC7117370 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1135(02)00300-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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One hundred avian Pasteurella multocida isolates recovered from cases of fowl cholera and related infections in England and Wales over a 13-year period were characterised by capsular PCR typing and analysis of outer membrane protein (OMP) profiles. Sixty-eight percent of the strains were of capsular type A, 14% were type F, 5% were type D, 4% were type B and 9% were untypable. Nineteen distinct OMP profiles (OMP-types) were identified based mainly on molecular mass heterogeneity of the heat-modifiable (OmpA) and porin (OmpH) proteins. Fifty-six percent of the isolates were represented by 15 OMP-types, whereas 44% of the isolates were associated with four OMP-types. The extensive molecular mass heterogeneity of the OmpA and OmpH proteins supports previous findings that avian P. multocida strains are very diverse. Furthermore, the isolates studied were associated with different clinical symptoms and were recovered from a wide range of lesions and tissues. The high degree of strain diversity together with the wide variety of clinical symptoms suggest that certain avian strains of P. multocida are opportunistic pathogens of relatively low virulence. Strains of capsular types B, D and F, as well as the untypable isolates, were associated exclusively with specific OMP-types and represent distinct and widely disseminated clonal groups. These observations support the view that avian strains of P. multocida have a clonal population structure. Based on previous studies, the molecular mass heterogeneity of the OmpA and OmpH proteins might provide a selective advantage to P. multocida by generating antigenic variation.
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- Robert L Davies
- Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Joseph Black Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, UK.
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Christensen H, Dziva F, Olsen JE, Bisgaard M. Genotypic heterogeneity of Pasteurella gallinarum as shown by ribotyping and 16S rRNA sequencing. Avian Pathol 2002; 31:603-10. [PMID: 12593745 DOI: 10.1080/0307945021000024562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Forty-five strains mainly isolated from chickens in Zimbabwe and Denmark, two pig and three rat isolates all identified as Pasteurella gallinarum by conventional phenotypic tests were characterized by ribotyping, and selected strains were subsequently analysed by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. High genotypic diversity was observed, the number of ribotypes totalling 24. A major group of 47 isolates including the type strain of P. gallinarum clustered at 56% similarity and included 21 ribotypes. Ribotyping showed that some genotypes of P. gallinarum seem to be globally distributed. The three isolates from rodents did not share even a single common ribotype fragment with strains from birds and the pig isolates. Two avian isolates from Denmark and Zimbabwe and the pig strain showed from 97.6 to 99.8% 16S rRNA sequence similarity with the type strain of P. gallinarum and with type strains of Pasteurella volantium and Pasteurella avium. Two rat strains showed 98.6% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with each other, but were only related with P. gallinarum at 93% similarity. These isolates showed the highest similarity with [Actinobacillus] muris at 96.4 to 95.0% similarity. We suggest that conventional identification of P. gallinarum consequently should consider the source of isolation to obtain a correct diagnosis, and that isolation from animals other than fowl should be confirmed by genotypic analysis such as 16S rRNA gene sequence comparison.
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- Henrik Christensen
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Stigbøjlen 4, 1870 Frederiksberg C, Denmark.
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Vilas-Boas G, Sanchis V, Lereclus D, Lemos MVF, Bourguet D. Genetic differentiation between sympatric populations of Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:1414-24. [PMID: 11872495 PMCID: PMC123783 DOI: 10.1128/aem.68.3.1414-1424.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Little is known about genetic exchanges in natural populations of bacteria of the spore-forming Bacillus cereus group, because no population genetics studies have been performed with local sympatric populations. We isolated strains of Bacillus thuringiensis and B. cereus from small samples of soil collected at the same time from two separate geographical sites, one within the forest and the other at the edge of the forest. A total of 100 B. cereus and 98 B. thuringiensis strains were isolated and characterized by electrophoresis to determine allelic composition at nine enzymatic loci. We observed genetic differentiation between populations of B. cereus and B. thuringiensis. Populations of a given Bacillus species--B. thuringiensis or B. cereus--were genetically more similar to each other than to populations of the other Bacillus species. Hemolytic activity provided further evidence of this genetic divergence, which remained evident even if putative clones were removed from the data set. Our results suggest that the rate of gene flow was higher between strains of the same species, but that exchanges between B. cereus and B. thuringiensis were nonetheless possible. Linkage disequilibrium analysis revealed sufficient recombination for B. cereus populations to be considered panmictic units. In B. thuringiensis, the balance between clonal proliferation and recombination seemed to depend on location. Overall, our data indicate that it is not important for risk assessment purposes to determine whether B. cereus and B. thuringiensis belong to a single or two species. Assessment of the biosafety of pest control based on B. thuringiensis requires evaluation of the extent of genetic exchange between strains in realistic natural conditions.
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- Gislayne Vilas-Boas
- Unité de Recherches de Lutte Biologique, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, La Minière, 78 285 Guyancourt, France
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The population structures of bacterial species are complex and often controversial. To a large extent, this is due to uncertainty about the frequency and impact of recombination in bacteria. The existence of clones within bacterial populations, and of linkage disequilibrium between alleles at different loci, is often cited as evidence for low rates of recombination. However, clones and linkage disequilibrium are almost inevitable in species that divide by binary fission and can be present in populations where recombination is frequent. In recent years, it has become possible to directly compare rates of recombination in different species. These studies indicate that in many bacterial species, including Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Staphylococcus aureus, evolutionary change at neutral (housekeeping) loci is more likely to occur by recombination than mutation and can result in the elimination of any deep-rooted phylogenetic signal. In such species, the long-term evolution of the population is dominated by recombination, but this does not occur at a sufficiently high frequency to prevent the emergence of adaptive clones, although these are relatively short-lived and rapidly diversify.
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- E J Feil
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom.
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Vázquez JA. [Immunization: leaps into the future. Vaccination for bacterial meningitis: reality or myth?]. Aten Primaria 2002; 30:643-7. [PMID: 12525341 PMCID: PMC7679748 DOI: 10.1016/s0212-6567(02)79127-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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- J A Vázquez
- Laboratorio de Referencia de Meningococos. Servicio de Bacteriología. Centro Nacional de Microbiología. Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Majadahonda. Madrid. España
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Bolduc GR, Bouchet V, Jiang RZ, Geisselsoder J, Truong-Bolduc QC, Rice PA, Pelton SI, Goldstein R. Variability of outer membrane protein P1 and its evaluation as a vaccine candidate against experimental otitis media due to nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae: an unambiguous, multifaceted approach. Infect Immun 2000; 68:4505-17. [PMID: 10899849 PMCID: PMC98360 DOI: 10.1128/iai.68.8.4505-4517.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Candidate vaccine antigens for preventing otitis media caused by nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI) should possess one or more conserved epitopes. We sought to evaluate the candidacy of P1, a surface-expressed outer membrane protein knowing that this antigen is subject to diversifying selection. Therefore, we selected NTHI strains from among >500 phylogenically variant isolates representative of the diversity found in natural populations of H. influenzae. Twenty-three variants of P1 (</=95% similarity) were identified among 42 strains. When chinchillas were immunized with recombinant P1 (rP1) obtained from one of these isolates (BCH-3), all animals developed antibodies specific for rP1. Immunized animals were protected against disease when challenged with BCH-3, but not with an ompP1 mutant of BCH-3 or a strain (BCH-2) possessing a heterologous P1 (91% identity). We conclude that (i) while P1 induces protection against NTHI-mediated otitis media, development of a polyvalent vaccine reflecting the variability of P1 would be necessary to construct an efficacious vaccine and (ii) use of a phylogenically characterized collection of representative isolates in concert with gene sequencing, cloning, gene inactivation, and animal testing offers an efficient, rational, and rigorous strategy for evaluating the potential problems associated with variability of vaccine targets and specificity of related immune responses.
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- G R Bolduc
- The Maxwell Finland Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
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Pearce MA, Devine DA, Dixon RA, van Steenbergen TJ. Genetic heterogeneity in Prevotella intermedia, Prevotella nigrescens, Prevotella corporis and related species isolated from oral and nonoral sites. ORAL MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY 2000; 15:89-95. [PMID: 11155171 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-302x.2000.150204.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Prevotella intermedia (43 isolates), Prevotella nigrescens (55) and Prevotella corporis (8) from oral and nonoral sites were distinguished by species-specific DNA fragments, after hybridization of DNA fragments with ribosomal RNA (ribotyping). Eight strains previously identified as P. intermedia did not have these specific fragments. P. nigrescens, P. intermedia and P. corporis formed separate clusters in dendrograms constructed using clustering with an unweighted pair group method with arithmetic averages of similarity values derived from ribotype patterns, with 10 subclusters in P. intermedia isolates and 26 in P. nigrescens. Nine groups of P. intermedia isolates and 6 of P. nigrescens shared identical patterns. Specific ribotypes or species were not associated with particular diseases when all isolates were analyzed. However, results from organisms isolated by one laboratory using consistent clinical reporting indicated that P. intermedia was associated with more severe forms of periodontitis and P. nigrescens with mild to moderate disease.
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- M A Pearce
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Bradford, United Kingdom
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Moor PE, Collignon PC, Gilbert GL. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis used to investigate genetic diversity of Haemophilus influenzae type b isolates in Australia shows differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal isolates. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37:1524-31. [PMID: 10203516 PMCID: PMC84820 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.5.1524-1531.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/1998] [Accepted: 01/28/1999] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We used pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to study the epidemiology and population structure of Haemophilus influenzae type b. DNAs from 187 isolates recovered between 1985 and 1993 from Aboriginal children (n = 76), non-Aboriginal children (n = 106), and non-Aboriginal adults (n = 5) in urban and rural regions across Australia were digested with the SmaI restriction endonuclease. Patterns of 13 to 17 well-resolved fragments (size range, approximately 8 to 500 kb) defining 67 restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) types were found. Two types predominated. One type (n = 37) accounted for 35 (46%) of the isolates from Aboriginals and 2 (2%) of the isolates from non-Aboriginals, and the other type (n = 41) accounted for 2 (3%) of the isolates from Aboriginals and 39 (35%) of the isolates from non-Aboriginals. Clustering revealed seven groups at a genetic distance of approximately 50% similarity in a tree-like dendrogram. They included two highly divergent groups representing 50 (66%) isolates from Aboriginals and 6 (5%) isolates from non-Aboriginals and another genetically distinct group representing 7 (9%) isolates from Aboriginals and 81 (73%) isolates from non-Aboriginals. The results showed a heterogeneous clonal population structure, with the isolates of two types accounting for 42% of the sample. There was no association between RFLP type and the diagnosis of meningitis or epiglottitis, age, sex, date of collection, or geographic location, but there was a strong association between the origin of isolates from Aboriginal children and RFLP type F2a and the origin of isolates from non-Aboriginal children and RFLP type A8b. The methodology discriminated well among the isolates (D = 0.91) and will be useful for the monitoring of postvaccine isolates of H. influenzae type b.
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- P E Moor
- Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia.
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Rao VK, Krasan GP, Hendrixson DR, Dawid S, St Geme JW. Molecular determinants of the pathogenesis of disease due to non-typable Haemophilus influenzae. FEMS Microbiol Rev 1999; 23:99-129. [PMID: 10234841 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.1999.tb00393.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Non-typable Haemophilus influenzae is a common commensal organism in the human upper respiratory tract and an important cause of localized respiratory tract disease. The pathogenesis of disease begins with bacterial colonization of the nasopharynx, a process that involves establishment on the mucosal surface and evasion of local immune mechanisms. Under the proper circumstances, the organism spreads contiguously to the middle ear, the sinuses, or the lungs, and then stimulates a brisk inflammatory response, producing symptomatic infection. In this review, we summarize our present understanding of the molecular determinants of this sequence of events. Continued investigation of the molecular mechanism of non-typable H. influenzae pathogenicity should facilitate development of novel approaches to the treatment and prevention of H. influenzae disease.
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- V K Rao
- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Mhlanga-Mutangadura T, Morlin G, Smith AL, Eisenstark A, Golomb M. Evolution of the major pilus gene cluster of Haemophilus influenzae. J Bacteriol 1998; 180:4693-703. [PMID: 9721313 PMCID: PMC107485 DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.17.4693-4703.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Haemophilus influenzae is a ubiquitous colonizer of the human respiratory tract and causes diseases ranging from otitis media to meningitis. Many H. influenzae isolates express pili (fimbriae), which mediate adherence to epithelial cells and facilitate colonization. The pilus gene (hif) cluster of H. influenzae type b maps between purE and pepN and resembles a pathogenicity island: it is present in invasive strains, absent from the nonpathogenic Rd strain, and flanked by direct repeats of sequence at the insertion site. To investigate the evolution and role in pathogenesis of the hif cluster, we compared the purE-pepN regions of various H. influenzae laboratory strains and clinical isolates. Unlike Rd, most strains had an insert at this site, which usually was the only chromosomal locus of hif DNA. The inserts are diverse in length and organization: among 20 strains, nine different arrangements were found. Several nontypeable isolates lack hif genes but have two conserved open reading frames (hicA and hicB) upstream of purE; their inferred products are small proteins with no data bank homologs. Other isolates have hif genes but lack hic DNA or have combinations of hif and hic genes. By comparing these arrangements, we have reconstructed a hypothetical ancestral genotype, the extended hif cluster. The hif region of INT1, an invasive nontypeable isolate, resembles the hypothetical ancestor. We propose that a progenitor strain acquired the extended cluster by horizontal transfer and that other variants arose as deletions. The structure of the hif cluster may correlate with colonization site or pathogenicity.
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- T Mhlanga-Mutangadura
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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Smith-Vaughan HC, Sriprakash KS, Leach AJ, Mathews JD, Kemp DJ. Low genetic diversity of Haemophilus influenzae type b compared to nonencapsulated H. influenzae in a population in which H. influenzae is highly endemic. Infect Immun 1998; 66:3403-9. [PMID: 9632612 PMCID: PMC108359 DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.7.3403-3409.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Immunization with Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate polysaccharide vaccines has dramatically reduced Hib disease worldwide. As in other populations, nasopharyngeal carriage of Hib declined markedly in Aboriginal infants following vaccination, although carriage has not been entirely eliminated. In this study, we describe the genetic characteristics and the carriage dynamics of longitudinal isolates of Hib, characterized by using several typing methods. In addition, carriage rates of nonencapsulated H. influenzae (NCHi) are high, and concurrent colonization with Hib and NCHi is common; we also observed NCHi isolates which were genetically similar to Hib. There is a continuing need to promote Hib immunization and monitor H. influenzae carriage in populations in which the organism is highly endemic, not least because of the possibility of genetic exchange between Hib and NCHi strains in such populations.
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- H C Smith-Vaughan
- Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
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The spread of antibiotic resistance and the development of new vaccines have focused attention on the epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae over recent years. While serotyping and the determination of antibiotic resistance remain primary methods for characterising pneumococci, molecular typing can add greater discrimination and complementary information. Methods based on restriction fragment length polymorphism within total DNA or non-specific polymerase chain reaction provide information representative of the whole genome and can be used to recognise closely related isolates from different sources, whether in the investigation of possible cross infection at the local level or in the investigation of national or international spread of antibiotic resistant strains. Fingerprinting of penicillin binding protein genes adds further information in the analysis of penicillin resistant isolates. The use of a combination of typing methods to analyse both the genome as a whole and specific loci has led to the realisation that pneumococci undergo horizontal gene transfer much more often than most other bacterial species. In particular the spread of penicillin resistance has been characterised by a combination of the spread of epidemic strains, transfer of chromosomal resistance genes from such strains into other genetic backgrounds, and transfer of capsule genes resulting in the switch of serotypes within strains. In the future molecular typing will have an important role in discovering whether widespread vaccination leads to genetic modification of the pneumococcal population causing invasive disease.
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- L M Hall
- Department of Medical Microbiology, St Bartholomew's, London, UK.
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Davies RL, Arkinsaw S, Selander RK. Evolutionary genetics of Pasteurella haemolytica isolates recovered from cattle and sheep. Infect Immun 1997; 65:3585-93. [PMID: 9284123 PMCID: PMC175510 DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.9.3585-3593.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Genetic diversity and relationships among 194 Pasteurella haemolytica isolates, which were recovered predominantly from cattle (39%) and sheep (58%) suffering from pneumonic pasteurellosis in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States, were estimated by examination of allelic variation at 18 enzyme-encoding loci detected by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. The isolates formed two major divisions. One included 178 Pasteurella haemolytica sensu stricto strains representing serotypes A1, A2, A5 to A9, A12 to A14, and A16; the other was composed of 16 isolates belonging to the A11 taxon. P. haemolytica isolates were classified into 22 electrophoretic types (ETs) that formed three primary phylogenetic lineages. One lineage was represented by ovine serotype A2 isolates, a second lineage consisted of bovine serotype A2, together with serotype A7 and A13 isolates, and the third lineage included isolates representing all of the other serotypes, as well as a second group of serotype A7 strains. Electrophoretic types were nonrandomly associated with specific capsular serotypes, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) types, outer membrane protein (OMP) types, and host species. Bovine isolates were represented by only three serotypes (A1, A2, and A6) in 5 ETs, whereas ovine isolates were represented by all of the serotypes in 19 ETs. The majority (76%) of bovine isolates were of serotypes A1 or A6 and belonged to a single ET that marked a virulent, cattle-specific clonal group. Among the ovine isolates, 40% were of serotype A2 and belonged to two ETs that represented two virulent, sheep-specific clonal groups. Bovine A1 and A6 isolates and bovine A2 isolates were phylogenetically distinct from ovine isolates of the same serotypes, indicating that different subpopulations of these serotypes are associated with disease in cattle and sheep. Consistent differences in the OMP profiles of strains of the bovine and ovine lineages of these three serotypes suggest that certain OMPs are involved in host specificity and virulence. Evolutionary relationships among P. haemolytica isolates indicate that the ancestral host is the sheep and that several distinct clonal lineages have crossed the species barrier into cattle. The A11 taxon is a heterogeneous group of opportunistic pathogens of sheep that represents a separate species.
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- R L Davies
- Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Davies RL, Arkinsaw S, Selander RK. Genetic relationships among Pasteurella trehalosi isolates based on multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1997; 143 ( Pt 8):2841-2849. [PMID: 9274038 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-8-2841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Genetic diversity among 60 British Pasteurella trehalosi isolates representing the four recognized capsular serotypes, T3, T4, T10 and T15, and recovered predominantly from sheep suffering from systemic pasteurellosis, was estimated by analysing electrophoretically demonstrable allelic variation at structural genes encoding 19 enzymes. Thirteen of the locl were polymorphic and 20 distinctive multilocus genotypes (electrophoretic types, ETs) were identified. The population structure of P. trehalosi is clonal and its genetic diversity is limited compared with most other pathogenic bacteria. ETs represent clones, and isolates of the same ET were generally associated with the same combination of serotype, LPS type and outer-membrane protein (OMP) type. The genetic diversity of isolates within each of the capsular serotypes varied. Serotype T10 was represented by 18 isolates in two related ETs and exhibited little diversity. By contrast, serotype T15 was represented by 18 isolates in nine ETs and was almost as diverse as the species as a whole Serotype T4 was represented by 18 isolates in five ETs and was less diverse than serotype T15. Although serotype T3 was more diverse than serotype T15 it was represented by only three isolates. With the exception of the T10 isolates and those recovered from healthy sheep, 35 disease isolates belonged to 16 ETs, each of which was represented by only one to four isolates. The fact that a high proportion of disease is caused by a relatively large number of clones suggests that P. trehalosi is essentially an opportunistic pathogen. In addition to having the same capsular structure, isolates belonging to the two T10 clones were characterized by possession of similar, if not identical, O-antigens (LPS types 2 and 4). The occurrence of 18 serotype T10 isolates in only two ETs suggests that the T10 capsule and type 2/4 O-antigen confer enhanced virulence on members of these two clones. Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE) had greater resolving power than did capsule/LPS/OMP analysis, being able to distinguish 20 rather than 14 sub-divisions within P. trehalosi. The technique demonstrated genetic identity or non-identity among strains of the same or different serotypes from different geographic localities within the UK and was a useful epidemiological tool.
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- Robert L Davies
- Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
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- Division of Infection and Immunity, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
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- Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Fusté MC, Pineda MA, Palomar J, Viñas M, Lorén JG. Clonality of multidrug-resistant nontypeable strains of Haemophilus influenzae. J Clin Microbiol 1996; 34:2760-5. [PMID: 8897179 PMCID: PMC229400 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.11.2760-2765.1996] [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: 02/02/2023] Open
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The genetic structure of a population of multidrug-resistant nontypeable (unencapsulated) Haemophilus influenzae strains isolated at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, was investigated by using multilocus enzyme electrophoresis to determine the allelic variation in 15 structural loci. In our study we have also included some antimicrobial agent-susceptible strains isolated at the same hospital. All enzymes were polymorphic for two to eight electromorphs, and the analysis revealed 43 distinct electrophoretic types among the 44 isolates. The mean genetic diversity of the entire population was 0.55. Multilocus linkage disequilibrium analysis of the isolates revealed a strong association between alleles, suggesting little possibility of recombination. Furthermore, the dendrogram and the allele mismatch distribution are typical of a population with no extensive genetic mixing.
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- M C Fusté
- Departament de Microbiologia i Parasitologia Sanitàries, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
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Lomholt H. Molecular biology and vaccine aspects of bacterial immunoglobulin A1 proteases. APMIS. SUPPLEMENTUM 1996; 62:5-28. [PMID: 8944051 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.1996.tb05580.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- H Lomholt
- Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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Feizabadi MM, Robertson ID, Cousins DV, Hampson DJ. Genomic analysis of Mycobacterium bovis and other members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by isoenzyme analysis and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. J Clin Microbiol 1996; 34:1136-42. [PMID: 8727890 PMCID: PMC228969 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.5.1136-1142.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Initially, multilocus enzyme electrophoresis was used to examine genetic relationships among 63 isolates of Mycobacterium bovis and 13 other members of the M. tuberculosis complex. The isolates were divided into five electrophoretic types, with a mean genetic diversity of 0.1. The strains were genetically homogenous, indicating that members of the complex were closely related. This supported the suggestion that they should be considered as subspecies of a single species. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) was then used to differentiate these isolates, as well as 59 additional isolates of M. bovis from different parts of the world. PFGE differentiated these strains into 63 patterns (53 patterns for M. bovis). Isolates of M. bovis from Western Australia (n = 46) were more homogenous than isolates from other regions. Eight strains were identified in that state, and one predominantly bovine strain was isolated from two human beings and a feral pig. Although M. bovis isolates from different parts of the world had distinct DNA patterns, some were very similar. PFGE is a highly discriminatory technique for epidemiological studies of bovine tuberculosis. For example, it allowed differentiation between isolates of M. bovis cultured from animals in separate outbreaks of tuberculosis, it suggested the transmission of infection between certain properties, and it demonstrated the existence of multiple infections with different strains at certain farms.
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- M M Feizabadi
- School of Veterinary Studies, Murdoch University, Australia
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Song XM, Forsgren A, Janson H. The gene encoding protein D (hpd) is highly conserved among Haemophilus influenzae type b and nontypeable strains. Infect Immun 1995; 63:696-9. [PMID: 7822043 PMCID: PMC173053 DOI: 10.1128/iai.63.2.696-699.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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The molecular conservation of a surface-exposed lipoprotein, protein D, of Haemophilus influenzae was studied by cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding protein D from three encapsulated type b strains and three nontypeable strains of H. influenzae. These nucleotide sequences were analyzed with previously reported sequences from one type b strain and one nontypeable strain. The nucleotide sequences and the deduced amino acid sequences for protein D were highly conserved. The deduced amino acid sequence (364 amino acids) of protein D from six strains differed only in two amino acids near the C-terminal end. The remaining two strains, one type b and one nontypeable, differed from the consensus sequence in 7 amino acids each. Protein D is 64 and 36% identical and 77 and 56% similar to the glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterases (GlpQ) of Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis.
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- X M Song
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Lund University, University Hospital MAS, Malmö, Sweden
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Lomholt H, Poulsen K, Kilian M. Comparative characterization of the iga gene encoding IgA1 protease in Neisseria meningitidis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Haemophilus influenzae. Mol Microbiol 1995; 15:495-506. [PMID: 7783620 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1995.tb02263.x] [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: 01/27/2023]
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Cloning and sequencing of the IgA1 protease gene (iga) from Neisseria meningitidis strain HF13 showed an overall structure equivalent to iga genes from Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Haemophilus influenzae, although no region corresponding to the gonococcal alpha-peptide was evident. An additional 18 N. meningitidis and 3 H. influenzae iga genes were amplified by the polymerase chain reaction technique and sequenced corresponding approximately to the N-terminal half of the mature enzyme. Comparative analyses of a total of 29 iga genes showed that pathogenic Neisseria have iga genes with a significantly lower degree of heterogeneity than H. influenzae iga genes. Recombinational events indicated by mosaic-like structures corresponding to those found among N. gonorrhoeae protease genes were detected among N. meningitidis iga genes. One region showed characteristic differences in sequence and length which correlated with each of the different cleavage specificities. Meningococci were extremely conserved in this region with no evidence of recombination between isolates of different cleavage specificities. Sequences further downstream showed no obvious relationship with enzyme cleavage type. This region consisted of conserved areas interspersed with highly variable areas. Amino acid sequence homologies in the variable regions of meningococci reflected the antigenic types defined by using polyclonal neutralizing antibodies.
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- H Lomholt
- Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
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