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Bisht D, Salave S, Desai N, Gogoi P, Rana D, Biswal P, Sarma G, Benival D, Kommineni N, Desai D. Genome editing and its role in vaccine, diagnosis, and therapeutic advancement. Int J Biol Macromol 2024; 269:131802. [PMID: 38670178 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.131802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2023] [Revised: 02/25/2024] [Accepted: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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Genome editing involves precise modification of specific nucleotides in the genome using nucleases like CRISPR/Cas, ZFN, or TALEN, leading to increased efficiency of homologous recombination (HR) for gene editing, and it can result in gene disruption events via non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) or homology-driven repair (HDR). Genome editing, particularly CRISPR-Cas9, revolutionizes vaccine development by enabling precise modifications of pathogen genomes, leading to enhanced vaccine efficacy and safety. It allows for tailored antigen optimization, improved vector design, and deeper insights into host genes' impact on vaccine responses, ultimately enhancing vaccine development and manufacturing processes. This review highlights different types of genome editing methods, their associated risks, approaches to overcome the shortcomings, and the diverse roles of genome editing.
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- Deepanker Bisht
- ICAR- Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar 243122, Bareilly, India
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- National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Ahmedabad 382355, Gujarat, India
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- Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi 502285, Telangana, India
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- School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin and Madison, Madison, WI 53726, USA
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- National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Ahmedabad 382355, Gujarat, India
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- College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bihar Animal Sciences University, Kishanganj 855115, Bihar, India
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- College of Veterinary & Animal Sciences, G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar 263145, U.S. Nagar, Uttarakhand, India
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- National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Ahmedabad 382355, Gujarat, India.
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- School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Tunsjø HS, Ullmann IF, Charnock C. A preliminary study of the use of MinION sequencing to specifically detect Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in culture swipes containing multiple serovars of this species. Sci Rep 2023; 13:8239. [PMID: 37217775 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-35279-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023] Open
Abstract
An important challenge relating to clinical diagnostics of the foodborne pathogen Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), is that PCR-detection of the shiga-toxin gene (stx) in DNA from stool samples can be accompanied by a failure to identify an STEC isolate in pure culture on agar. In this study, we have explored the use of MinION long-read sequencing of DNA from bacterial culture swipes to detect the presence of STEC, and bioinformatic tools to characterize the STEC virulence factors. The online workflow "What's in my pot" (WIMP) in the Epi2me cloud service, rapidly identified STEC also when it was present in culture swipes together with multiple other E. coli serovars, given sufficient abundance. These preliminary results provide useful information about the sensitivity of the method, which has potential to be used in clinical diagnostic of STEC, particularly in cases where a pure culture of the STEC isolate is not obtained due to the 'STEC lost Shiga toxin' phenomenon.
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- Hege S Tunsjø
- Department of Life Sciences and Health, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.
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- Department of Life Sciences and Health, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
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Nafian F, Nafian S, Kamali Doust Azad B, Hashemi M. CRISPR-Based Diagnostics and Microfluidics for COVID-19 Point-of-Care Testing: A Review of Main Applications. Mol Biotechnol 2023; 65:497-508. [PMID: 36183037 PMCID: PMC9526387 DOI: 10.1007/s12033-022-00570-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2021] [Accepted: 09/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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An ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). So far, there have been various approaches for SARS-CoV-2 detection, each having its pros and cons. The current gold-standard method for SARS-CoV-2 detection, which offers acceptable specificity and sensitivity, is the quantitative reverse transcription-PCR (qRT-PCR). However, this method requires considerable cost and time to transport samples to specialized laboratories and extract, amplify, and detect the viral genome. On the other hand, antigen and antibody testing approaches that bring rapidity and affordability into play have lower sensitivity and specificity during the early stages of COVID-19. Moreover, the immune response is variable depending on the individual. Methods based on clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) can be used as an alternative approach to controlling the spread of disease by a high-sensitive, specific, and low-cost molecular diagnostic system. CRISPR-based detection systems (CRISPR-Dx) target the desired sequences by specific CRISPR-RNA (crRNA)-pairing on a pre-amplified sample and a subsequent collateral cleavage. In the present article, we have reviewed different CRISPR-Dx methods and presented their benefits and drawbacks for point-of-care testing (POCT) of suspected SARS-CoV-2 infections at home or in small clinics.
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- Fatemeh Nafian
- Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Paramedics, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- Farhikhtegan Medical Convergence Sciences Research Center, Farhikhtegan Hospital Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Institute of Medical Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Genetics, Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- Farhikhtegan Medical Convergence Sciences Research Center, Farhikhtegan Hospital Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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Mapook A, Hyde KD, Hassan K, Kemkuignou BM, Čmoková A, Surup F, Kuhnert E, Paomephan P, Cheng T, de Hoog S, Song Y, Jayawardena RS, Al-Hatmi AMS, Mahmoudi T, Ponts N, Studt-Reinhold L, Richard-Forget F, Chethana KWT, Harishchandra DL, Mortimer PE, Li H, Lumyong S, Aiduang W, Kumla J, Suwannarach N, Bhunjun CS, Yu FM, Zhao Q, Schaefer D, Stadler M. Ten decadal advances in fungal biology leading towards human well-being. FUNGAL DIVERS 2022; 116:547-614. [PMID: 36123995 PMCID: PMC9476466 DOI: 10.1007/s13225-022-00510-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 07/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Fungi are an understudied resource possessing huge potential for developing products that can greatly improve human well-being. In the current paper, we highlight some important discoveries and developments in applied mycology and interdisciplinary Life Science research. These examples concern recently introduced drugs for the treatment of infections and neurological diseases; application of -OMICS techniques and genetic tools in medical mycology and the regulation of mycotoxin production; as well as some highlights of mushroom cultivaton in Asia. Examples for new diagnostic tools in medical mycology and the exploitation of new candidates for therapeutic drugs, are also given. In addition, two entries illustrating the latest developments in the use of fungi for biodegradation and fungal biomaterial production are provided. Some other areas where there have been and/or will be significant developments are also included. It is our hope that this paper will help realise the importance of fungi as a potential industrial resource and see the next two decades bring forward many new fungal and fungus-derived products.
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- Ausana Mapook
- Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand
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- Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand
- School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand
- Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201 Yunnan China
- Research Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200 Thailand
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200 Thailand
- Innovative Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, 510225 China
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- Department Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), and German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Brunswick, Germany
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- Department Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), and German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Brunswick, Germany
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- Laboratory of Fungal Genetics and Metabolism, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Department Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), and German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Brunswick, Germany
- Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstraße 7, 38106 Brunswick, Germany
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- Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research (BMWZ), Institute for Organic Chemistry, Leibniz University Hannover, Schneiderberg 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Department Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), and German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Brunswick, Germany
- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, 272 Rama VI Road, Ratchathewi, Bangkok, 10400 Thailand
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- Department Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), and German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Brunswick, Germany
- Laboratory of Fungal Genetics and Metabolism, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Center of Expertise in Mycology, Radboud University Medical Center / Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Monitoring and Disease Control, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China
- Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology Graduate Program, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Department of Dermatology, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand
- School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand
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- Center of Expertise in Mycology, Radboud University Medical Center / Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Natural and Medical Sciences Research Center, University of Nizwa, Nizwa, Oman
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- Department of Biochemistry, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- INRAE, UR1264 Mycology and Food Safety (MycSA), 33882 Villenave d’Ornon, France
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- Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, Institute of Microbial Genetics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Tulln an der Donau, Austria
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- Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand
- School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand
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- Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand
- School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Environment Friendly Management on Fruit Diseases and Pests in North China, Institute of Plant Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, 100097 China
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- Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201 Yunnan China
- Centre for Mountain Futures (CMF), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, 650201 Yunnan China
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- Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201 Yunnan China
- Centre for Mountain Futures (CMF), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, 650201 Yunnan China
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- Research Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200 Thailand
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200 Thailand
- Academy of Science, The Royal Society of Thailand, Bangkok, 10300 Thailand
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200 Thailand
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- Research Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200 Thailand
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200 Thailand
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- Research Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200 Thailand
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50200 Thailand
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- Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand
- School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand
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- Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand
- School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand
- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Fungal Diversity and Green Development, Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201 Yunnan China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Fungal Diversity and Green Development, Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201 Yunnan China
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- Centre for Mountain Futures (CMF), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, 650201 Yunnan China
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- Department Microbial Drugs, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), and German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Inhoffenstrasse 7, 38124 Brunswick, Germany
- Institute of Microbiology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Spielmannstraße 7, 38106 Brunswick, Germany
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Navarro A, van der Ploeg C, Rogé A, Licona-Moreno D, Delgado G, Morales-Espinosa R, Cravioto A, Eslava C. Diversity of Potentially Pathogenic Escherichia coli O104 and O9 Serogroups Isolated before 2011 from Fecal Samples from Children from Different Geographic Regions. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9112227. [PMID: 34835353 PMCID: PMC8619403 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9112227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2021] [Revised: 10/20/2021] [Accepted: 10/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
In 2011, an outbreak of hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) was reported in Europe that was related to a hybrid STEAEC of Escherichia coli (E. coli) O104:H4 strain. The current study aimed to analyze strains of E. coli O104 and O9 isolated before 2011. The study included 47 strains isolated from children with and without diarrhea between 1986 and 2009 from different geographic regions, as well as seven reference strains. Serotyping was carried out on 188 anti-O and 53 anti-H sera. PCR was used to identify DEC genes and phylogenetic groups. Resistance profiles to antimicrobials were determined by diffusion in agar, while PFGE was used to analyze genomic similarity. Five serotypes of E. coli O104 and nine of O9 were identified, as well as an antigenic cross-reaction with one anti-E. coli O9 serum. E. coli O104 and O9 presented diarrheagenic E. coli (DEC) genes in different combinations and were located in commensal phylogenetic groups with different antimicrobial resistance. PFGE showed that O104:H4 and O9:(H4, NM) strains from SSI, Bangladesh and México belong to a diverse group located in the same subgroup. E. coli O104 and O9 were classified as commensal strains containing DEC genes. The groups were genetically diverse with pathogenic potential making continued epidemiologic surveillance important.
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- Armando Navarro
- Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, México City 04510, Mexico;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +52-5544547025
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- Servicio de Antígenos y Antisueros, Instituto Nacional de Producción de Biológicos (INPB)—ANLIS “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires 1282, Argentina; (C.v.d.P.); (A.R.)
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- Servicio de Antígenos y Antisueros, Instituto Nacional de Producción de Biológicos (INPB)—ANLIS “Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán”, Buenos Aires 1282, Argentina; (C.v.d.P.); (A.R.)
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- Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Avenida Universidad 3000, Ciudad Universitaria, México City 04510, Mexico;
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- Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City 04510, Mexico; (G.D.); (R.M.-E.)
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- Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City 04510, Mexico; (G.D.); (R.M.-E.)
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- Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City 04510, Mexico;
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- Peripheral Unit of Basic and Clinical Research in Infectious Diseases, Public Health Department, Research Division, Faculty of Medicine Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Bacterial Pathogenicity Laboratory, Hemato-Oncology and Research Unit, Children’s Hospital of Mexico Federico Gómez, Dr. Márquez 162, Col. De los Doctores, México City 06720, Mexico;
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Merino VR, Nakano V, Delannoy S, Fach P, Alberca GGF, Farfan MJ, Piazza RMF, Avila-Campos MJ. Prevalence of Enteropathogens and Virulence Traits in Brazilian Children With and Without Diarrhea. Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2020; 10:549919. [PMID: 33102252 PMCID: PMC7545120 DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2020.549919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The use of molecular diagnostics for pathogen detection in epidemiological studies have allowed us to get a wider view of the pathogens associated with diarrhea, but the presence of enteropathogens in asymptomatic individuals has raised several challenges in understanding the etiology of diarrhea, and the use of these platforms in clinical diagnosis as well. To characterize the presence of the most relevant bacterial enteropathogens in diarrheal episodes, we evaluated here the prevalence of diarrheagenic E. coli pathotypes, Salmonella spp., and Yersinia enterocolitica in stool samples of children with and without diarrhea using real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR). We found that the presence of genetic markers associated with bacterial pathogens was significantly higher in stool samples from the diarrhea group compared to the control (P < 0.001). Bacterial loads in samples positive for eae and aggR markers were also determined. Compared to samples from asymptomatic children, a significantly higher number of copies of the eae gene were found in diarrhea samples. Also, the presence of genetic markers associated with STEC strains with clinical significance was evaluated in eae-positive samples by high-throughput real-time PCR. The data presented herein demonstrated that asymptomatic children of an urban area in Brazil might be enteropathogen reservoirs, especially for STEC.
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- Victor R Merino
- Laboratório de Anaeróbios, Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Anaeróbios, Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l'Alimentation, de l'Environnement et du Travail, Food Safety Laboratory, Université Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France
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- Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l'Alimentation, de l'Environnement et du Travail, Food Safety Laboratory, Université Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France
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- Laboratório de Anaeróbios, Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Pediatría y Cirugía Infantil, Facultad de Medicina, Campus Oriente-Hospital Dr. Luis Calvo Mackenna, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Laboratório de Anaeróbios, Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Mourand G, Le Devendec L, Delannoy S, Fach P, Keita A, Amelot M, Jaunet H, Dia MEH, Kempf I. Variations of the Escherichia coli population in the digestive tract of broilers. Avian Pathol 2020; 49:678-688. [PMID: 32835506 DOI: 10.1080/03079457.2020.1814201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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We explored the between-group and temporal variations in the intestinal Escherichia coli populations of broilers under experimental conditions, taking both antimicrobial resistance and virulence into consideration. Four replicates of 45 commercial chicks were reared in four animal facilities. On their first day of life (Day 0), they were orally inoculated with two extended-spectrum-cephalosporin-resistant (ESCR) E. coli (2.72 log10 CFU of a bla CMY-2- and 2.55 log10 CFU of a bla CTX-M-carrying E. coli). Faecal samples were then collected weekly and caecal samples were obtained from birds sacrificed on Days 21 or 42. The total, ESC-, ciprofloxacin- and gentamicin-resistant E. coli populations were enumerated on MacConkey (MC) and MC-supplemented media, and eight virulence-associated genes (VAGs) (iroN, iutA, iss, ompT, hlyF, vat, frzorf4 , and fyuA) were sought by PCR on isolates obtained on MC agar. The results showed significant between-group differences in the size of the resistant sub-populations and the presence of VAGs. Contrary to bla CTX-M-positive strains, bla CMY-positive strains persisted up to Day 42, but represented only a minor fraction of the total E. coli population. The ESC-, gentamicin- and ciprofloxacin-resistant populations decreased over time. Isolates obtained during the first week contained a mean of 5.1 VAGs. The percentages of some VAG profiles differed between faecal isolates on Day 41 and caecal isolates on Day 42. The fluctuations or differences between E. coli isolates according to group, age, and faecal or caecal origin need to be considered when designing experimental protocols and seeking to improve colibacillosis control. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Temporal variations in the intestinal E. coli populations of broilers was studied. The antibiotic-resistant populations decreased over time. Virulence profiles differed between faecal isolates on Day 41 and caecal isolates on Day 42. Strains with the highest numbers of virulence genes were present during the first days.
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- Gwenaëlle Mourand
- ANSES Laboratoire de Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort, Zoopôle les croix, Ploufragan, France
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- ANSES Laboratoire de Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort, Zoopôle les croix, Ploufragan, France
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- ANSES - French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety Food Research Laboratory, Platform IdentyPath, Maisons-Alfort, France
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- ANSES - French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety Food Research Laboratory, Platform IdentyPath, Maisons-Alfort, France
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- ANSES Laboratoire de Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort, Zoopôle les croix, Ploufragan, France
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- ANSES Laboratoire de Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort, Zoopôle les croix, Ploufragan, France
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- ANSES Laboratoire de Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort, Zoopôle les croix, Ploufragan, France
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Jolany vangah S, Katalani C, Booneh HA, Hajizade A, Sijercic A, Ahmadian G. CRISPR-Based Diagnosis of Infectious and Noninfectious Diseases. Biol Proced Online 2020; 22:22. [PMID: 32939188 PMCID: PMC7489454 DOI: 10.1186/s12575-020-00135-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Interest in CRISPR technology, an instrumental component of prokaryotic adaptive immunity which enables prokaryotes to detect any foreign DNA and then destroy it, has gained popularity among members of the scientific community. This is due to CRISPR's remarkable gene editing and cleaving abilities. While the application of CRISPR in human genome editing and diagnosis needs to be researched more fully, and any potential side effects or ambiguities resolved, CRISPR has already shown its capacity in an astonishing variety of applications related to genome editing and genetic engineering. One of its most currently relevant applications is in diagnosis of infectious and non-infectious diseases. Since its initial discovery, 6 types and 22 subtypes of CRISPR systems have been discovered and explored. Diagnostic CRISPR systems are most often derived from types II, V, and VI. Different types of CRISPR-Cas systems which have been identified in different microorganisms can target DNA (e.g. Cas9 and Cas12 enzymes) or RNA (e.g. Cas13 enzyme). Viral, bacterial, and non-infectious diseases such as cancer can all be diagnosed using the cleavage activity of CRISPR enzymes from the aforementioned types. Diagnostic tests using Cas12 and Cas13 enzymes have already been developed for detection of the emerging SARS-CoV-2 virus. Additionally, CRISPR diagnostic tests can be performed using simple reagents and paper-based lateral flow assays, which can potentially reduce laboratory and patient costs significantly. In this review, the classification of CRISPR-Cas systems as well as the basis of the CRISPR/Cas mechanisms of action will be presented. The application of these systems in medical diagnostics with emphasis on the diagnosis of COVID-19 will be discussed.
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- Somayeh Jolany vangah
- Department of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, P.O.BOX: 14155-6343 Iran
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Agricultural Science, Sari Agricultural Science and Natural Resource University, Sari, Iran
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- Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, International Burch University, Francuske Revolucije bb, Ilidza, 71210 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Applied Microbiology Research Center, Systems Biology and Poisonings Institute, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, International Burch University, Francuske Revolucije bb, Ilidza, 71210 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Department of Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology, National Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (NIGEB), Tehran, P.O.BOX: 14155-6343 Iran
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Long J, Xu Y, Ou L, Yang H, Xi Y, Chen S, Duan G. Utilization of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats to Genotype Escherichia coli Serogroup O80. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1708. [PMID: 32793166 PMCID: PMC7390953 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01708] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2020] [Accepted: 06/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The hypervariable nature of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) makes them valuable biomarkers for subtyping and epidemiological investigation of Escherichia coli. Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) serogroup O80 is one hybrid pathotype that is emerging recently in Europe and is involved in hemolytic uremic syndrome with bacteremia. However, whether STEC O80 strains can be genotyped using CRISPR has not been evaluated. In this study, we aimed to characterize the genetic diversity of 81 E. coli serogroup O80 isolates deposited in the National Center for Biotechnology Information databases using CRISPR typing and to explore the association between virulence potential and CRISPR types (CTs). A total of 21 CTs were identified in 80 O80 strains. CRISRP typing provided discrimination with variants of a single serotype, which suggested a stronger discriminatory power. Based on CRISPR spacer profiles, 70 O80:H2 isolates were further divided into four lineages (lineage LI, LII, LIII, and LIV), which correlated well with whole-genome single nucleotide polymorphisms typing and virulence gene profiles. Moreover, the association between CRISPR lineages and virulence gene profiles hinted that STEC O80:H2 strains may originate from O80:H19 or O80:H26 and that lineage LI may have been evolved from lineage LII. CT2 and CT13 were shared by human and cattle isolates, suggesting that there might be the potential transmission between cattle and human. Collectively, CRISPR typing is one technology that can be used to monitor the transmission of STEC O80 strains and provide new insights into microevolution of serogroup O80.
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- Jinzhao Long
- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- Institute for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Henan Province Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Henan, China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.,Henan Innovation Center of Molecular Diagnosis and Laboratory Medicine, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China
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Long J, Xu Y, Ou L, Yang H, Xi Y, Chen S, Duan G. Polymorphism of Type I-F CRISPR/Cas system in Escherichia coli of phylogenetic group B2 and its application in genotyping. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2019; 74:103916. [PMID: 31195154 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2019.103916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2019] [Revised: 05/22/2019] [Accepted: 06/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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E. coli of phylogenetic group B2 is responsible for many extraintestinal infections, posing a great threat to health. The relatively polymorphic nature of CRISPR in phylogenetically related E. coli strains makes them potential markers for bacterial typing and evolutionary studies. In the current work, we investigated the occurrence and diversity of CRISPR/Cas system and explored its potential for genotyping. Type I-F CRISPR/Cas systems were found in 413 of 1190 strains of E. coli and exhibited the clustering within certain CCs and STs. And CRISPR spacer contents correlated well with MLST types. The divergence analysis of CRISPR showed stronger discriminatory power than MLST, and CRISPR polymorphism was instrumental for differentiating highly closely related strains. The timeline of spacer acquisition and deletion provided important information for inferring the evolution model between distinct serotypes. Identical spacer sequences were shared by strains with the same H-antigen type but not strains with the same O-antigen type. The homology between spacers and antibiotic-resistant plasmids demonstrated the role of Type I-F system in limiting the acquisition of antimicrobial resistance. Collectively, our data presents the dynamic nature of Type I-F CRISPR in E. coli of phylogenetic group B2 and provides new insights into the application of CRISPR-based typing in the species.
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- Jinzhao Long
- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China; School Hospital, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan, China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.
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- College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China; Henan Innovation Center of Molecular Diagnosis and Laboratory Medicine, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, Henan, China.
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In infectious disease epidemiology, the laboratory plays a critical role in diagnosis, outbreak investigations, surveillance, and characterizing biologic properties of microbes associated with their transmissibility, resistance to anti-infectives, and pathogenesis. The laboratory can inform and refine epidemiologic study design and data analyses. In public health, the laboratory functions to assess effect of an intervention. In addition to research laboratories, the new-generation molecular microbiology technology has been adapted into clinical and public health laboratories to simplify, accelerate, and make precise detection and identification of infectious disease pathogens. This technology is also being applied to subtype microbes to conduct investigations that advance our knowledge of epidemiology of old and emerging infectious diseases. Because of the recent explosive progress in molecular microbiology technology and the vast amount of data generated from the applications of this technology, this Microbiology Spectrum Curated Collection: Advances in Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases describes these methods separately for bacteria, viruses, and parasites. This review discusses past and current advancements made in laboratory methods used to conduct epidemiologic studies of bacterial infections. It describes methods used to subtype bacterial organisms based on molecular microbiology techniques, following a discussion on what is meant by bacterial "species" and "clones." Discussions on past and new genotyping tests applied to epidemiologic investigations focus on tests that compare electrophoretic band patterns, hybridization matrices, and nucleic acid sequences. Applications of these genotyping tests to address epidemiologic issues are detailed elsewhere in other reviews of this series. *This article is part of a curated collection.
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Medina-Aparicio L, Dávila S, Rebollar-Flores JE, Calva E, Hernández-Lucas I. The CRISPR-Cas system in Enterobacteriaceae. Pathog Dis 2018; 76:4794941. [PMID: 29325038 DOI: 10.1093/femspd/fty002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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In nature, microorganisms are constantly exposed to multiple viral infections and thus have developed many strategies to survive phage attack and invasion by foreign DNA. One of such strategies is the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated proteins (Cas) bacterial immunological system. This defense mechanism is widespread in prokaryotes including several families such as Enterobacteriaceae. Much knowledge about the CRISPR-Cas system has been generated, including its biological functions, transcriptional regulation, distribution, utility as a molecular marker and as a tool for specific genome editing. This review focuses on these aspects and describes the state of the art of the CRISPR-Cas system in the Enterobacteriaceae bacterial family.
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- Liliana Medina-Aparicio
- Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, México
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- Centro de Investigación en Dinámica Celular, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Av. Universidad No. 1001, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62209, México
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- Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, México
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- Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, México
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- Departamento de Microbiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, Morelos 62210, México
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Kiel M, Sagory-Zalkind P, Miganeh C, Stork C, Leimbach A, Sekse C, Mellmann A, Rechenmann F, Dobrindt U. Identification of Novel Biomarkers for Priority Serotypes of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli and the Development of Multiplex PCR for Their Detection. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1321. [PMID: 29997582 PMCID: PMC6028524 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2018] [Accepted: 05/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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It would be desirable to have an unambiguous scheme for the typing of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) isolates to subpopulations. Such a scheme should take the high genomic plasticity of E. coli into account and utilize the stratification of STEC into subgroups, based on serotype or phylogeny. Therefore, our goal was to identify specific marker combinations for improved classification of STEC subtypes. We developed and evaluated two bioinformatic pipelines for genomic marker identification from larger sets of bacterial genome sequences. Pipeline A performed all-against-all BLASTp analyses of gene products predicted in STEC genome test sets against a set of control genomes. Pipeline B identified STEC marker genes by comparing the STEC core proteome and the "pan proteome" of a non-STEC control group. Both pipelines defined an overlapping, but not identical set of discriminative markers for different STEC subgroups. Differential marker prediction resulted from differences in genome assembly, ORF finding and inclusion cut-offs in both workflows. Based on the output of the pipelines, we defined new specific markers for STEC serogroups and phylogenetic groups frequently associated with outbreaks and cases of foodborne illnesses. These included STEC serogroups O157, O26, O45, O103, O111, O121, and O145, Shiga toxin-positive enteroaggregative E. coli O104:H4, and HUS-associated sequence type (ST)306. We evaluated these STEC marker genes for their presence in whole genome sequence data sets. Based on the identified discriminative markers, we developed a multiplex PCR (mPCR) approach for detection and typing of the targeted STEC. The specificity of the mPCR primer pairs was verified using well-defined clinical STEC isolates as well as isolates from the ECOR, DEC, and HUSEC collections. The application of the STEC mPCR for food analysis was tested with inoculated milk. In summary, we evaluated two different strategies to screen large genome sequence data sets for discriminative markers and implemented novel marker genes found in this genome-wide approach into a DNA-based typing tool for STEC that can be used for the characterization of STEC from clinical and food samples.
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- Matthias Kiel
- Institute of Hygiene, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Genostar Bioinformatics, Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France
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- Institute of Hygiene, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Hygiene, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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DNA microarray-based assessment of virulence potential of Shiga toxin gene-carrying Escherichia coli O104:H7 isolated from feedlot cattle feces. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0196490. [PMID: 29708991 PMCID: PMC5927410 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2017] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli O104:H4, a hybrid pathotype reported in a large 2011 foodborne outbreak in Germany, has not been detected in cattle feces. However, cattle harbor and shed in the feces other O104 serotypes, particularly O104:H7, which has been associated with sporadic cases of diarrhea in humans. The objective of our study was to assess the virulence potential of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O104:H7 isolated from feces of feedlot cattle using DNA microarray. Six strains of STEC O104:H7 isolated from cattle feces were analyzed using FDA-E. coli Identification (ECID) DNA microarray to determine their virulence profiles and compare them to the human strains (clinical) of O104:H7, STEC O104:H4 (German outbreak strain), and O104:H21 (milk-associated Montana outbreak strain). Scatter plots were generated from the array data to visualize the gene-level differences between bovine and human O104 strains, and Pearson correlation coefficients (r) were determined. Splits tree was generated to analyze relatedness between the strains. All O104:H7 strains, both bovine and human, similar to O104:H4 and O104:H21 outbreak strains were negative for intimin (eae). The bovine strains were positive for Shiga toxin 1 subtype c (stx1c), enterohemolysin (ehxA), tellurite resistance gene (terD), IrgA homolog protein (iha), type 1 fimbriae (fimH), and negative for genes that code for effector proteins of type III secretory system. The six cattle O104 strains were closely related (r = 0.86-0.98) to each other, except for a few differences in phage related and non-annotated genes. One of the human clinical O104:H7 strains (2011C-3665) was more closely related to the bovine O104:H7 strains (r = 0.81-0.85) than the other four human clinical O104:H7 strains (r = 0.75-0.79). Montana outbreak strain (O104:H21) was more closely related to four of the human clinical O104:H7 strains than the bovine O104:H7 strains. None of the bovine E. coli O104 strains carried genes characteristic of E. coli O104:H4 German outbreak strain and unlike other human strains were also negative for Shiga toxin 2. Because cattle E. coli O104:H7 strains possess stx1c and genes that code for enterohemolysin and a variety of adhesins, the serotype has the potential to be a diarrheagenic foodborne pathogen in humans.
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Shridhar PB, Patel IR, Gangiredla J, Noll LW, Shi X, Bai J, Elkins CA, Strockbine NA, Nagaraja TG. Genetic Analysis of Virulence Potential of Escherichia coli O104 Serotypes Isolated From Cattle Feces Using Whole Genome Sequencing. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:341. [PMID: 29545780 PMCID: PMC5838399 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2017] [Accepted: 02/12/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli O104:H4, a Shiga toxin-producing hybrid pathotype that was implicated in a major foodborne outbreak in Germany in 2011, has not been detected in cattle. However, serotypes of O104, other than O104:H4, have been isolated from cattle feces, with O104:H7 being the most predominant. In this study, we investigated, based on whole genome sequence analyses, the virulence potential of E. coli O104 strains isolated from cattle feces, since cattle are asymptomatic carriers of E. coli O104. The genomes of ten bovine E. coli O104 strains (six O104:H7, one O104:H8, one O104:H12, and two O104:H23) and five O104:H7 isolated from human clinical cases were sequenced. Of all the bovine O104 serotypes (H7, H8, H12, and H23) that were included in the study, only E. coli O104:H7 serotype possessed Shiga toxins. Four of the six bovine O104:H7 strains and one of the five human strains carried stx1c. Three human O104 strains carried stx2, two were of subtype 2a, and one was 2d. Genomes of stx carrying bovine O104:H7 strains were larger than the stx-negative strains of O104:H7 or other serotypes. The genome sizes were proportional to the number of genes carried on the mobile genetic elements (phages, prophages, transposable elements and plasmids). Both bovine and human strains were negative for intimin and other genes associated with the type III secretory system and non-LEE encoded effectors. Plasmid-encoded virulence genes (ehxA, epeA, espP, katP) were also present in bovine and human strains. All O104 strains were negative for antimicrobial resistance genes, except one human strain. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that bovine E. coli O104 strains carrying the same flagellar antigen clustered together and STEC strains clustered separately from non-STEC strains. One of the human O104:H7 strains was phylogenetically closely related to and belonged to the same sequence type (ST-1817) as the bovine O104:H7 STEC strains. This suggests that the bovine feces could be a source of human illness caused by E. coli O104:H7 serotype. Because bovine O104:H7 strains carried virulence genes similar to human clinical strains and one of the human clinical strains was phylogenetically related to bovine strains, the serotype has the potential to be a diarrheagenic pathogen in humans.
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- Pragathi B Shridhar
- Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States
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- Division of Molecular Biology, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, United States Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, MD, United States
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- Division of Molecular Biology, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, United States Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, MD, United States
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States.,Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States
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- Division of Molecular Biology, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, United States Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, MD, United States
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- Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States
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Köckerling E, Karrasch L, Schweitzer A, Razum O, Krause G. Public Health Research Resulting from One of the World's Largest Outbreaks Caused by Entero-Hemorrhagic Escherichia coli in Germany 2011: A Review. Front Public Health 2017; 5:332. [PMID: 29312915 PMCID: PMC5732330 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2017] [Accepted: 11/23/2017] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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In 2011, Germany experienced one of the largest outbreaks of entero-hemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) ever reported. Four years thereafter, we systematically searched for scientific publications in PubMed and MEDPILOT relating to this outbreak in order to assess the pattern of respective research activities and to assess the main findings and recommendations in the field of public health. Following PRISMA guidelines, we selected 133 publications, half of which were published within 17 months after outbreak onset. Clinical medicine was covered by 71, microbiology by 60, epidemiology by 46, outbreak reporting by 11, and food safety by 9 papers. Those on the last three topics drew conclusions on methods in surveillance, diagnosis, and outbreak investigation, on resources in public health, as well as on inter-agency collaboration, and public communication. Although the outbreak primarily affected Germany, most publications were conducted by multinational cooperations. Our findings document how soon and in which fields research was conducted with respect to this outbreak.
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- Elena Köckerling
- Department of Epidemiology and International Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.,Department Münster, Institute for Rehabilitation Research IfR, Münster, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and International Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and International Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany.,Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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Shiga Toxin-Producing Serogroup O91 Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Food and Environmental Samples. Appl Environ Microbiol 2017; 83:AEM.01231-17. [PMID: 28687651 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01231-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2017] [Accepted: 07/01/2017] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains of the O91:H21 serotype have caused severe infections, including hemolytic-uremic syndrome. Strains of the O91 serogroup have been isolated from food, animals, and the environment worldwide but are not well characterized. We used a microarray and other molecular assays to examine 49 serogroup O91 strains (environmental, food, and clinical strains) for their virulence potential and phylogenetic relationships. Most of the isolates were identified to be strains of the O91:H21 and O91:H14 serotypes, with a few O91:H10 strains and one O91:H9 strain being identified. None of the strains had the eae gene, which codes for the intimin adherence protein, and many did not have some of the genetic markers that are common in other STEC strains. The genetic profiles of the strains within each serotype were similar but differed greatly between strains of different serotypes. The genetic profiles of the O91:H21 strains that we tested were identical or nearly identical to those of the clinical O91:H21 strains that have caused severe diseases. Multilocus sequence typing and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat analyses showed that the O91:H21 strains clustered within the STEC 1 clonal group but the other O91 serotype strains were phylogenetically diverse.IMPORTANCE This study showed that food and environmental O91:H21 strains have similar genotypic profiles and Shiga toxin subtypes and are phylogenetically related to the O91:H21 strains that have caused hemolytic-uremic syndrome, suggesting that these strains may also have the potential to cause severe illness.
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Draft Genome Sequences of Escherichia coli O104 Strains of Bovine and Human Origin. GENOME ANNOUNCEMENTS 2017; 5:5/33/e00630-17. [PMID: 28818887 PMCID: PMC5604760 DOI: 10.1128/genomea.00630-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cattle harbor and shed in their feces several Escherichia coli O104 serotypes. All O104 strains examined were intimin negative and belonged to the B1 phylogroup, and some were Shiga toxigenic. We report here the genome sequences of bovine O104:H7 (n = 5), O104:H23 (n = 2), O104:H8 (n = 1), and O104:H12 (n = 1) isolates and human clinical isolates of O104:H7 (n = 5).
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Gholizadeh P, Aghazadeh M, Asgharzadeh M, Kafil HS. Suppressing the CRISPR/Cas adaptive immune system in bacterial infections. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2017; 36:2043-2051. [PMID: 28601970 DOI: 10.1007/s10096-017-3036-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2017] [Accepted: 05/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) coupled with CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins (CRISPR/Cas) are the adaptive immune system of eubacteria and archaebacteria. This system provides protection of bacteria against invading foreign DNA, such as transposons, bacteriophages and plasmids. Three-stage processes in this system for immunity against foreign DNAs are defined as adaptation, expression and interference. Recent studies suggested a correlation between the interfering of the CRISPR/Cas locus, acquisition of antibiotic resistance and pathogenicity island. In this review article, we demonstrate and discuss the CRISPR/Cas system's roles in interference with acquisition of antibiotic resistance and pathogenicity island in some eubacteria. Totally, these systems function as the adaptive immune system of bacteria against invading foreign DNA, blocking the acquisition of antibiotic resistance and virulence factor, detecting serotypes, indirect effects of CRISPR self-targeting, associating with physiological functions, associating with infections in humans at the transmission stage, interfering with natural transformation, a tool for genome editing in genome engineering, monitoring foodborne pathogens etc. These results showed that the CRISPR/Cas system might prevent the emergence of virulence both in vitro and in vivo. Moreover, this system was shown to be a strong selective pressure for the acquisition of antibiotic resistance and virulence factor in bacterial pathogens.
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- P Gholizadeh
- Hematology and Oncology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.,Student Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Biotechnology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Infectious and Tropical Disease Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Drug Applied Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
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Feng P, Delannoy S, Lacher DW, Bosilevac JM, Fach P. Characterization and Virulence Potential of Serogroup O113 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Beef and Cattle in the United States. J Food Prot 2017; 80:383-391. [PMID: 28199145 DOI: 10.4315/0362-028x.jfp-16-325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) of serotype O113:H21 have caused severe diseases but are unusual in that they do not produce the intimin protein required for adherence to intestinal epithelial cells. Strains of serogroup O113 are one of the most common STEC found in ground beef and beef products in the United States, but their virulence potential is unknown. We used a microarray to characterize 65 O113 strains isolated in the United States from ground beef, beef trim, cattle feces, and fresh spinach. Most were O113:H21 strains, but there were also nine strains of O113:H4 serotype. Although strains within the same serotype had similar profiles for the genes that were tested on the array, the profiles were distinct between the two serotypes, and the strains belonged to different clonal groups. Analysis by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat analysis showed that O113:H4 strains are conserved genetically, but the O113:H21 strains showed considerable polymorphism and genetic diversity. In comparison to the O113:H21 strains from Australia that were implicated in severe disease, the U.S. isolates showed similar genetic profiles to the known pathogens from Australia, suggesting that these may also have the potential to cause infections.
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- Peter Feng
- Division of Microbiology, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 5001 Campus Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA
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- French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, 27-31 Avenue du General Leclerc, 94701 Maisons-Alfort, France
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- Division of Molecular Biology, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 8401 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, Maryland 20708, USA
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- U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 166, State Spur 18D, Clay Center, Nebraska 68933, USA
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- French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, 27-31 Avenue du General Leclerc, 94701 Maisons-Alfort, France
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Westra ER, Dowling AJ, Broniewski JM, van Houte S. Evolution and Ecology of CRISPR. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS 2016. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-121415-032428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Edze R. Westra
- Environment and Sustainability Institute and Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Tremough Campus, Penryn TR10 9FE, United Kingdom;
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- Environment and Sustainability Institute and Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Tremough Campus, Penryn TR10 9FE, United Kingdom;
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- Environment and Sustainability Institute and Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Tremough Campus, Penryn TR10 9FE, United Kingdom;
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- Environment and Sustainability Institute and Centre for Ecology and Conservation, Biosciences, University of Exeter, Tremough Campus, Penryn TR10 9FE, United Kingdom;
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Wang S, Weller D, Falardeau J, Strawn LK, Mardones FO, Adell AD, Moreno Switt AI. Food safety trends: From globalization of whole genome sequencing to application of new tools to prevent foodborne diseases. Trends Food Sci Technol 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2016.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Woudstra C, Le Maréchal C, Souillard R, Bayon-Auboyer MH, Mermoud I, Desoutter D, Fach P. New Insights into the Genetic Diversity of Clostridium botulinum Group III through Extensive Genome Exploration. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:757. [PMID: 27242769 PMCID: PMC4871853 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2016] [Accepted: 05/05/2016] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Animal botulism is caused by group III Clostridium botulinum strains producing type C and D toxins, or their chimeric forms C/D and D/C. Animal botulism is considered an emerging disease in Europe, notably in poultry production. Before our study, 14 genomes from different countries were available in the public database, but none were from France. In order to investigate the genetic relationship of French strains with different geographical areas and find new potential typing targets, 17 strains of C. botulinum group III were sequenced (16 from France and one from New Caledonia). Fourteen were type C/D strains isolated from chickens, ducks, guinea fowl and turkeys and three were type D/C strains isolated from cattle. The New Caledonian strain was a type D/C strain. Whole genome sequence analysis showed the French strains to be closely related to European strains from C. botulinum group III lineages Ia and Ib. The investigation of CRISPR sequences as genetic targets for differentiating strains in group III proved to be irrelevant for type C/D due to a deficient CRISPR/Cas mechanism, but not for type D/C. Conversely, the extrachromosomal elements of type C/D strains could be used to generate a genetic ID card. The highest level of discrimination was achieved with SNP core phylogeny, which allowed differentiation up to strain level and provide the most relevant information for genetic epidemiology studies and discrimination.
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- Cédric Woudstra
- Laboratory for Food Safety, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety - Université Paris-Est Maisons-Alfort, France
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- Hygiene and Quality of Poultry and Pig Products Unit, Ploufragan-Plouzané Laboratory, UEB, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & SafetyPloufragan, France; l'UBL Université Bretagne LoireRennes, France
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- l'UBL Université Bretagne LoireRennes, France; Avian and Rabbit Epidemiology and Welfare Unit, Ploufragan-Plouzané Laboratory, UEB, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & SafetyPloufragan, France
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- Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Laboratoires Officiels Vétérinaires, Agroalimentaires et Phytosanitaires, La Direction des Affaires Vétérinaires Païta, New Caledonia
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- Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Laboratoires Officiels Vétérinaires, Agroalimentaires et Phytosanitaires, La Direction des Affaires Vétérinaires Païta, New Caledonia
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- Laboratory for Food Safety, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety - Université Paris-Est Maisons-Alfort, France
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Delannoy S, Beutin L, Fach P. Improved traceability of Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli using CRISPRs for detection and typing. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2016; 23:8163-8174. [PMID: 26449676 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-5446-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2015] [Accepted: 09/16/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Among strains of Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), seven serogroups (O26, O45, O103, O111, O121, O145, and O157) are frequently associated with severe clinical illness in humans. The development of methods for their reliable detection from complex samples such as food has been challenging thus far, and is currently based on the PCR detection of the major virulence genes stx1, stx2, and eae, and O-serogroup-specific genes. However, this approach lacks resolution. Moreover, new STEC serotypes are continuously emerging worldwide. For example, in May 2011, strains belonging to the hitherto rarely detected STEC serotype O104:H4 were identified as causative agents of one of the world's largest outbreak of disease with a high incidence of hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome in the infected patients. Discriminant typing of pathogens is crucial for epidemiological surveillance and investigations of outbreaks, and especially for tracking and tracing in case of accidental and deliberate contamination of food and water samples. Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) are composed of short, highly conserved DNA repeats separated by unique sequences of similar length. This distinctive sequence signature of CRISPRs can be used for strain typing in several bacterial species including STEC. This review discusses how CRISPRs have recently been used for STEC identification and typing.
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- Sabine Delannoy
- ANSES, Food Safety Laboratory, Platform IdentyPath, Université Paris-Est, Maisons-Alfort, France.
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- Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany
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- ANSES, Food Safety Laboratory, Platform IdentyPath, Université Paris-Est, Maisons-Alfort, France
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Escherichia coli O104 in Feedlot Cattle Feces: Prevalence, Isolation and Characterization. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0152101. [PMID: 27010226 PMCID: PMC4807062 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0152101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2016] [Accepted: 03/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli O104:H4, an hybrid pathotype of Shiga toxigenic and enteroaggregative E. coli, involved in a major foodborne outbreak in Germany in 2011, has not been detected in cattle feces. Serogroup O104 with H type other than H4 has been reported to cause human illnesses, but their prevalence and characteristics in cattle have not been reported. Our objectives were to determine the prevalence of E. coli O104 in feces of feedlot cattle, by culture and PCR detection methods, and characterize the isolated strains. Rectal fecal samples from a total of 757 cattle originating from 29 feedlots were collected at a Midwest commercial slaughter plant. Fecal samples, enriched in E. coli broth, were subjected to culture and PCR methods of detection. The culture method involved immunomagnetic separation with O104-specific beads and plating on a selective chromogenic medium, followed by serogroup confirmation of pooled colonies by PCR. If pooled colonies were positive for the wzxO104 gene, then colonies were tested individually to identify wzxO104-positive serogroup and associated genes of the hybrid strains. Extracted DNA from feces were also tested by a multiplex PCR to detect wzxO104-positive serogroup and associated major genes of the O104 hybrid pathotype. Because wzxO104 has been shown to be present in E. coli O8/O9/O9a, wzxO104-positive isolates and extracted DNA from fecal samples were also tested by a PCR targeting wbdDO8/O9/O9a, a gene specific for E. coli O8/O9/O9a serogroups. Model-adjusted prevalence estimates of E. coli O104 (positive for wzxO104 and negative for wbdDO8/O9/O9a) at the feedlot level were 5.7% and 21.2%, and at the sample level were 0.5% and 25.9% by culture and PCR, respectively. The McNemar's test indicated that there was a significant difference (P < 0.01) between the proportions of samples that tested positive for wzxO104 and samples that were positive for wzxO104, but negative for wbdDO8/O9/O9a by PCR and culture methods. A total of 143 isolates, positive for the wzxO104, were obtained in pure culture from 146 positive fecal samples. Ninety-two of the 143 isolates (64.3%) also tested positive for the wbdDO8/O9/O9a, indicating that only 51 (35.7%) isolates truly belonged to the O104 serogroup (positive for wzxO104 and negative for wbdDO8/O9/O9a). All 51 isolates tested negative for eae, and 16 tested positive for stx1 gene of the subtype 1c. Thirteen of the 16 stx1-positive O104 isolates were from one feedlot. The predominant serotype was O104:H7. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis indicated that stx1-positive O104:H7 isolates had 62.4% homology to the German outbreak strain and 67.9% to 77.5% homology to human diarrheagenic O104:H7 strains. The 13 isolates obtained from the same feedlot were of the same PFGE subtype with 100% Dice similarity. Although cattle do not harbor the O104:H4 pathotype, they do harbor and shed Shiga toxigenic O104 in the feces and the predominant serotype was O104:H7.
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Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains are commonly found in the intestine of ruminant species of wild and domestic animals. Excretion of STEC with animal feces results in a broad contamination of food and the environment. Humans get infected with STEC through ingestion of contaminated food, by contact with the environment, and from STEC-excreting animals and humans. STEC strains can behave as human pathogens, and some of them, called enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), may cause hemorrhagic colitis (HC) and hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). Because of the diversity of STEC types, detection strategies for STEC and EHEC are based on the identification of Shiga toxins or the underlying genes. Cultural enrichment of STEC from test samples is needed for identification, and different protocols were developed for this purpose. Multiplex real-time PCR protocols (ISO/CEN TS13136 and USDA/FSIS MLG5B.01) have been developed to specifically identify EHEC by targeting the LEE (locus of enterocyte effacement)-encoded eae gene and genes for EHEC-associated O groups. The employment of more genetic markers (nle and CRISPR) is a future challenge for better identification of EHEC from any kinds of samples. The isolation of STEC or EHEC from a sample is required for confirmation, and different cultivation protocols and media for this purpose have been developed. Most STEC strains present in food, animals, and the environment are eae negative, but some of these strains can cause HC and HUS in humans as well. Phenotypic assays and molecular tools for typing EHEC and STEC strains are used to detect and characterize human pathogenic strains among members of the STEC group.
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Delannoy S, Chaves BD, Ison SA, Webb HE, Beutin L, Delaval J, Billet I, Fach P. Revisiting the STEC Testing Approach: Using espK and espV to Make Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) Detection More Reliable in Beef. Front Microbiol 2016; 7:1. [PMID: 26834723 PMCID: PMC4722105 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2015] [Accepted: 01/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Current methods for screening Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157 and non-O157 in beef enrichments typically rely on the molecular detection of stx, eae, and serogroup-specific wzx or wzy gene fragments. As these genetic markers can also be found in some non-EHEC strains, a number of "false positive" results are obtained. Here, we explore the suitability of five novel molecular markers, espK, espV, ureD, Z2098, and CRISPRO26:H11 as candidates for a more accurate screening of EHEC strains of greater clinical significance in industrialized countries. Of the 1739 beef enrichments tested, 180 were positive for both stx and eae genes. Ninety (50%) of these tested negative for espK, espV, ureD, and Z2098, but 12 out of these negative samples were positive for the CRISPRO26:H11 gene marker specific for a newly emerging virulent EHEC O26:H11 French clone. We show that screening for stx, eae, espK, and espV, in association with the CRISPRO26:H11 marker is a better approach to narrow down the EHEC screening step in beef enrichments. The number of potentially positive samples was reduced by 48.88% by means of this alternative strategy compared to the European and American reference methods, thus substantially improving the discriminatory power of EHEC screening systems. This approach is in line with the EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) opinion on pathogenic STEC published in 2013.
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- Sabine Delannoy
- Food Safety Laboratory, Université Paris-Est, Anses (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety), Platform IdentyPathMaisons-Alfort, France
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- Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Texas Tech UniversityLubbock, TX, USA
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- Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Texas Tech UniversityLubbock, TX, USA
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- Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Texas Tech UniversityLubbock, TX, USA
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- Division of Microbial Toxins, National Reference Laboratory for Escherichia coli, Federal Institute for Risk AssessmentBerlin, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Touraine, (LDA37) Conseil DépartementalTours, France
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- Food Safety Laboratory, Université Paris-Est, Anses (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety), Platform IdentyPathMaisons-Alfort, France
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Yang C, Li P, Su W, Li H, Liu H, Yang G, Xie J, Yi S, Wang J, Cui X, Wu Z, Wang L, Hao R, Jia L, Qiu S, Song H. Polymorphism of CRISPR shows separated natural groupings of Shigella subtypes and evidence of horizontal transfer of CRISPR. RNA Biol 2015; 12:1109-20. [PMID: 26327282 PMCID: PMC4829275 DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2015.1085150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2015] [Revised: 07/30/2015] [Accepted: 08/15/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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Clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) act as an adaptive RNA-mediated immune mechanism in bacteria. They can also be used for identification and evolutionary studies based on polymorphisms within the CRISPR locus. We amplified and analyzed 6 CRISPR loci from 237 Shigella strains belonging to the 4 species groups, as well as 13 Escherichia coli strains. The CRISPR-associated (cas) gene sequence arrays of these strains were screened and compared. The CRISPR sequences from Shigella were conserved among subtypes, suggesting that CRISPR may represent a new identification tool for the detection and discrimination of Shigella species. Secondary structure analysis showed a different stem-loop structure at the terminal repeat, suggesting a distinct recognition mechanism in the formation of crRNA. In addition, the presence of "self-target" spacers and polymorphisms within CRISPR in Shigella indicated a selective pressure for inhibition of this system, which has the potential to damage "self DNA." Homology analysis of spacers showed that CRISPR might be involved in the regulation of virulence transmission. Phylogenetic analysis based on CRISPR sequences from Shigella and E. coli indicated that although phenotypic properties maintain convergent evolution, the 4 Shigella species do not represent natural groupings. Surprisingly, comparative analysis of Shigella repeats with other species provided new evidence for CRISPR horizontal transfer. Our results suggested that CRISPR analysis is applicable for the detection of Shigella species and for investigation of evolutionary relationships.
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- Chaojie Yang
- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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- Institute of Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Military Medical Sciences; Beijing, China
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Identification of Candidate Adherent-Invasive E. coli Signature Transcripts by Genomic/Transcriptomic Analysis. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0130902. [PMID: 26125937 PMCID: PMC4509574 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2015] [Accepted: 05/25/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) strains are detected more frequently within mucosal lesions of patients with Crohn’s disease (CD). The AIEC phenotype consists of adherence and invasion of intestinal epithelial cells and survival within macrophages of these bacteria in vitro. Our aim was to identify candidate transcripts that distinguish AIEC from non-invasive E. coli (NIEC) strains and might be useful for rapid and accurate identification of AIEC by culture-independent technology. We performed comparative RNA-Sequence (RNASeq) analysis using AIEC strain LF82 and NIEC strain HS during exponential and stationary growth. Differential expression analysis of coding sequences (CDS) homologous to both strains demonstrated 224 and 241 genes with increased and decreased expression, respectively, in LF82 relative to HS. Transition metal transport and siderophore metabolism related pathway genes were up-regulated, while glycogen metabolic and oxidation-reduction related pathway genes were down-regulated, in LF82. Chemotaxis related transcripts were up-regulated in LF82 during the exponential phase, but flagellum-dependent motility pathway genes were down-regulated in LF82 during the stationary phase. CDS that mapped only to the LF82 genome accounted for 747 genes. We applied an in silico subtractive genomics approach to identify CDS specific to AIEC by incorporating the genomes of 10 other previously phenotyped NIEC. From this analysis, 166 CDS mapped to the LF82 genome and lacked homology to any of the 11 human NIEC strains. We compared these CDS across 13 AIEC, but none were homologous in each. Four LF82 gene loci belonging to clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats region (CRISPR)—CRISPR-associated (Cas) genes were identified in 4 to 6 AIEC and absent from all non-pathogenic bacteria. As previously reported, AIEC strains were enriched for pdu operon genes. One CDS, encoding an excisionase, was shared by 9 AIEC strains. Reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction assays for 6 genes were conducted on fecal and ileal RNA samples from 22 inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and 32 patients without IBD (non-IBD). The expression of Cas loci was detected in a higher proportion of CD than non-IBD fecal and ileal RNA samples (p <0.05). These results support a comparative genomic/transcriptomic approach towards identifying candidate AIEC signature transcripts.
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An in vitro combined antibiotic-antibody treatment eliminates toxicity from Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2015; 59:5435-44. [PMID: 26100707 DOI: 10.1128/aac.00763-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2015] [Accepted: 06/16/2015] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Treating Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) gastrointestinal infections is difficult. The utility of antibiotics for STEC treatment is controversial, since antibiotic resistance among STEC isolates is widespread and certain antibiotics dramatically increase the expression of Shiga toxins (Stxs), which are some of the most important virulence factors in STEC. Stxs contribute to life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which develops in considerable proportions of patients with STEC infections. Understanding the antibiotic resistance profiles of STEC isolates and the Stx induction potential of promising antibiotics is essential for evaluating any antibiotic treatment of STEC. In this study, 42 O157:H7 or non-O157 STEC isolates (including the "big six" serotypes) were evaluated for their resistance against 22 antibiotics by using an antibiotic array. Tigecycline inhibited the growth of all of the tested STEC isolates and also inhibited the production of Stxs (Stx2 in particular). In combination with neutralizing antibodies to Stx1 and Stx2, the tigecycline-antibody treatment fully protected Vero cells from Stx toxicity, even when the STEC bacteria and the Vero cells were cultured together. The combination of an antibiotic such as tigecycline with neutralizing antibodies presents a promising strategy for future STEC treatments.
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Ison SA, Delannoy S, Bugarel M, Nightingale KK, Webb HE, Renter DG, Nagaraja TG, Loneragan GH, Fach P. Genetic Diversity and Pathogenic Potential of Attaching and Effacing Escherichia coli O26:H11 Strains Recovered from Bovine Feces in the United States. Appl Environ Microbiol 2015; 81:3671-8. [PMID: 25795673 PMCID: PMC4421050 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00397-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2015] [Accepted: 03/15/2015] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Escherichia coli O26 has been identified as the most common non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) serogroup to cause human illnesses in the United States and has been implicated in outbreaks around the world. E. coli has high genomic plasticity, which facilitates the loss or acquisition of virulence genes. Attaching and effacing E. coli (AEEC) O26 strains have frequently been isolated from bovine feces, and there is a need to better characterize the relatedness of these strains to defined molecular pathotypes and to describe the extent of their genetic diversity. High-throughput real-time PCR was used to screen 178 E. coli O26 isolates from a single U.S. cattle feedlot, collected from May to July 2011, for the presence or absence of 25 O26 serogroup-specific and virulence-associated markers. The selected markers were capable of distinguishing these strains into molecularly defined groups (yielding 18 unique marker combinations). Analysis of the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat 1 (CRISPR1) and CRISPR2a loci further discriminated isolates into 24 CRISPR types. The combination of molecular markers and CRISPR typing provided 20.8% diversity. The recent CRISPR PCR target SP_O26-E, which was previously identified only in stx2-positive O26:H11 human clinical strains, was identified in 96.4% (161/167 [95% confidence interval, 99.2 to 93.6%]) of the stx-negative AEEC O26:H11 bovine fecal strains. This supports that these stx-negative strains may have previously contained a prophage carrying stx or could acquire this prophage, thus possibly giving them the potential to become pathogenic to humans. These results show that investigation of specific genetic markers may further elucidate our understanding of the genetic diversity of AEEC O26 strains in bovine feces.
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- Sarah A Ison
- Texas Tech University, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Lubbock, Texas, USA
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- French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, Food Safety Laboratory, Platform IdentyPath, Maisons-Alfort, France
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- Texas Tech University, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Lubbock, Texas, USA
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- Texas Tech University, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Lubbock, Texas, USA
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- Texas Tech University, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Lubbock, Texas, USA
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- Kansas State University, Department of Diagnostic Medicine Pathobiology, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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- Kansas State University, Department of Diagnostic Medicine Pathobiology, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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- Texas Tech University, Department of Animal and Food Sciences, Lubbock, Texas, USA
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- French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety, Food Safety Laboratory, Platform IdentyPath, Maisons-Alfort, France
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Yan X, Fratamico PM, Bono JL, Baranzoni GM, Chen CY. Genome sequencing and comparative genomics provides insights on the evolutionary dynamics and pathogenic potential of different H-serotypes of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104. BMC Microbiol 2015; 15:83. [PMID: 25887577 PMCID: PMC4393859 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-015-0413-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2014] [Accepted: 03/12/2015] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Various H-serotypes of the Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O104, including H4, H7, H21, and H¯, have been associated with sporadic cases of illness and have caused food-borne outbreaks globally. In the U.S., STEC O104:H21 caused an outbreak associated with milk in 1994. However, there is little known on the evolutionary origins of STEC O104 strains, and how genotypic diversity contributes to pathogenic potential of various O104 H-antigen serotypes isolated from different ecological niches and/or geographical regions. RESULTS Two STEC O104:H21 (milk outbreak strain) and O104:H7 (cattle isolate) strains were shot-gun sequenced, and the genomes were closed. The intimin (eae) gene, involved in the attaching-effacing phenotype of diarrheagenic E. coli, was not found in either strain. Examining various O104 genome sequences, we found that two "complete" left and right end portions of the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicity island were present in 13 O104 strains; however, the central portion of LEE was missing, where the eae gene is located. In O104:H4 strains, the missing central portion of the LEE locus was replaced by a pathogenicity island carrying the aidA (adhesin involved in diffuse adherence) gene and antibiotic resistance genes commonly carried on plasmids. Enteroaggregative E. coli-specific virulence genes and European outbreak O104:H4-specific stx2-encoding Escherichia P13374 or Escherichia TL-2011c bacteriophages were missing in some of the O104:H4 genome sequences available from public databases. Most of the genomic variations in the strains examined were due to the presence of different mobile genetic elements, including prophages and genomic island regions. The presence of plasmids carrying virulence-associated genes may play a role in the pathogenic potential of O104 strains. CONCLUSIONS The two strains sequenced in this study (O104:H21 and O104:H7) are genetically more similar to each other than to the O104:H4 strains that caused an outbreak in Germany in 2011 and strains found in Central Africa. A hypothesis on strain evolution and pathogenic potential of various H-serotypes of E. coli O104 strains is proposed.
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- Xianghe Yan
- USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Eastern Regional Research Center, 600 E. Mermaid Lane, 19038, Wyndmoor, PA, USA.
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, 600 East Mermaid Lane, 19038, Wyndmoor, PA, USA.
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- USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Eastern Regional Research Center, 600 E. Mermaid Lane, 19038, Wyndmoor, PA, USA.
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- USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, NE, 68933, USA.
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- USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Eastern Regional Research Center, 600 E. Mermaid Lane, 19038, Wyndmoor, PA, USA.
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- USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Eastern Regional Research Center, 600 E. Mermaid Lane, 19038, Wyndmoor, PA, USA.
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Koskela KA, Mattinen L, Kalin-Mänttäri L, Vergnaud G, Gorgé O, Nikkari S, Skurnik M. Generation of a CRISPR database forYersinia pseudotuberculosiscomplex and role of CRISPR-based immunity in conjugation. Environ Microbiol 2015; 17:4306-21. [DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2015] [Accepted: 02/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- Katja A. Koskela
- Research and Development Department; Centre for Military Medicine; Helsinki Finland
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- Department of Bacteriology and Immunology; Haartman Institute and Research Programs Unit; Immunobiology; University of Helsinki; PO Box 21, 00014 Helsinki Finland
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- Research and Development Department; Centre for Military Medicine; Helsinki Finland
- Department of Bacteriology and Immunology; Haartman Institute and Research Programs Unit; Immunobiology; University of Helsinki; PO Box 21, 00014 Helsinki Finland
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- Univ Paris-Sud; Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie; UMR8621; Orsay France
- CNRS; Orsay France
- ENSTA ParisTech; Palaiseau France
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- Univ Paris-Sud; Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie; UMR8621; Orsay France
- CNRS; Orsay France
- DGA/MNRBC; Vert le Petit France
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- Research and Development Department; Centre for Military Medicine; Helsinki Finland
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- Department of Bacteriology and Immunology; Haartman Institute and Research Programs Unit; Immunobiology; University of Helsinki; PO Box 21, 00014 Helsinki Finland
- Helsinki University Central Hospital Laboratory Diagnostics; Helsinki Finland
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Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is among the common causes of foodborne gastroenteritis. STEC is defined by the production of specific toxins, but within this pathotype there is a diverse group of organisms. This diversity has important consequences for understanding the pathogenesis of the organism, as well as for selecting the optimum strategy for diagnostic testing in the clinical laboratory. This review includes discussions of the mechanisms of pathogenesis, the range of manifestations of infection, and the several different methods of laboratory detection of Shiga toxin-producing E coli.
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Salazar JK, Wang Y, Yu S, Wang H, Zhang W. Polymerase chain reaction-based serotyping of pathogenic bacteria in food. J Microbiol Methods 2015; 110:18-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2015.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2014] [Revised: 01/09/2015] [Accepted: 01/14/2015] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Fontana C, Weintraub A, Widmalm G. Structural Elucidation of the O-Antigen Polysaccharide from Escherichia coli O181. ChemistryOpen 2014; 4:47-55. [PMID: 25861570 PMCID: PMC4380953 DOI: 10.1002/open.201402068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2014] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is an important pathogen associated to food-borne infection in humans; strains of E. coli O181, isolated from human cases of diarrhea, have been classified as belonging to this pathotype. Herein, the structure of the O-antigen polysaccharide (PS) from E. coli O181 has been investigated. The sugar analysis showed quinovosamine (QuiN), glucosamine (GlcN), galactosamine (GalN), and glucose (Glc) as major components. Analysis of the high-resolution mass spectrum of the oligosaccharide (OS), obtained by dephosphorylation of the O-deacetylated PS with aqueous 48 % hydrofluoric acid, revealed a pentasaccharide composed of two QuiNAc, one GlcNAc, one GalNAc, and one Glc residue. The 1H and 13C NMR chemical shift assignments of the OS were carried out using 1 D and 2 D NMR experiments, and the OS was sequenced using a combination of tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) data and NMR 13C NMR glycosylation shifts. The structure of the native PS was determined using NMR spectroscopy, and it consists of branched pentasaccharide repeating units joined by phosphodiester linkages: →4)[α-l-QuipNAc-(1→3)]-α-d-GalpNAc6Ac-(1→6)-α-d-Glcp-(1→P-4)-α-l-QuipNAc-(1→3)-β-d-GlcpNAc-(1→; the O-acetyl groups represent 0.4 equivalents per repeating unit. Both the OS and PSs exhibit rare conformational behavior since two of the five anomeric proton resonances could only be observed at an elevated temperature.
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- Carolina Fontana
- Arrhenius Laboratory, Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University S-106 91 Stockholm (Sweden)
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital S-141 86 Stockholm (Sweden)
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- Arrhenius Laboratory, Department of Organic Chemistry, Stockholm University S-106 91 Stockholm (Sweden)
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Over the course of the past several decades, rapid advancements in molecular technologies have revolutionized the practice of public health microbiology, and have fundamentally changed the nature, accuracy, and timeliness of laboratory data for outbreak investigation and response. Whole-genome sequencing, in particular, is becoming an increasingly feasible and cost-effective approach for near real-time high-resolution strain typing, genomic characterization, and comparative analyses. This review discusses the current state of the art in bacterial strain typing for outbreak investigation and infectious disease surveillance, and the impact of emerging genomic technologies on the field of public health microbiology.
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- Duncan MacCannell
- National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road Northeast, MS-C12, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
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Bergholz TM, Moreno Switt AI, Wiedmann M. Omics approaches in food safety: fulfilling the promise? Trends Microbiol 2014; 22:275-81. [PMID: 24572764 DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2014.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2013] [Revised: 01/13/2014] [Accepted: 01/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics are rapidly transforming our approaches to the detection, prevention, and treatment of foodborne pathogens. Microbial genome sequencing in particular has evolved from a research tool into an approach that can be used to characterize foodborne pathogen isolates as part of routine surveillance systems. Genome sequencing efforts will not only improve outbreak detection and source tracking, but will also create large amounts of foodborne pathogen genome sequence data, which will be available for data-mining efforts that could facilitate better source attribution and provide new insights into foodborne pathogen biology and transmission. Although practical uses and application of metagenomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics data and associated tools are less prominent, these tools are also starting to yield practical food safety solutions.
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- Teresa M Bergholz
- Department of Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA
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- Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
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Toro M, Cao G, Ju W, Allard M, Barrangou R, Zhao S, Brown E, Meng J. Association of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) elements with specific serotypes and virulence potential of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli. Appl Environ Microbiol 2014; 80:1411-20. [PMID: 24334663 PMCID: PMC3911044 DOI: 10.1128/aem.03018-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2013] [Accepted: 12/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains (n = 194) representing 43 serotypes and E. coli K-12 were examined for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) arrays to study genetic relatedness among STEC serotypes. A subset of the strains (n = 81) was further analyzed for subtype I-E cas and virulence genes to determine a possible association of CRISPR elements with potential virulence. Four types of CRISPR arrays were identified. CRISPR1 and CRISPR2 were present in all strains tested; 1 strain also had both CRISPR3 and CRISPR4, whereas 193 strains displayed a short, combined array, CRISPR3-4. A total of 3,353 spacers were identified, representing 528 distinct spacers. The average length of a spacer was 32 bp. Approximately one-half of the spacers (54%) were unique and found mostly in strains of less common serotypes. Overall, CRISPR spacer contents correlated well with STEC serotypes, and identical arrays were shared between strains with the same H type (O26:H11, O103:H11, and O111:H11). There was no association identified between the presence of subtype I-E cas and virulence genes, but the total number of spacers had a negative correlation with potential pathogenicity (P < 0.05). Fewer spacers were found in strains that had a greater probability of causing outbreaks and disease than in those with lower virulence potential (P < 0.05). The relationship between the CRISPR-cas system and potential virulence needs to be determined on a broader scale, and the biological link will need to be established.
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- Magaly Toro
- Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
- Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
- Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Veterinary Medicine, Laurel, Maryland, USA
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- U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, College Park, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
- Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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Fabre L, Le Hello S, Roux C, Issenhuth-Jeanjean S, Weill FX. CRISPR is an optimal target for the design of specific PCR assays for salmonella enterica serotypes Typhi and Paratyphi A. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2014; 8:e2671. [PMID: 24498453 PMCID: PMC3907412 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2013] [Accepted: 12/13/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Serotype-specific PCR assays targeting Salmonella enterica serotypes Typhi and Paratyphi A, the causal agents of typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, are required to accelerate formal diagnosis and to overcome the lack of typing sera and, in some situations, the need for culture. However, the sensitivity and specificity of such assays must be demonstrated on large collections of strains representative of the targeted serotypes and all other bacterial populations producing similar clinical symptoms. METHODOLOGY Using a new family of repeated DNA sequences, CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats), as a serotype-specific target, we developed a conventional multiplex PCR assay for the detection and differentiation of serotypes Typhi and Paratyphi A from cultured isolates. We also developed EvaGreen-based real-time singleplex PCR assays with the same two sets of primers. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We achieved 100% sensitivity and specificity for each protocol after validation of the assays on 188 serotype Typhi and 74 serotype Paratyphi A strains from diverse genetic groups, geographic origins and time periods and on 70 strains of bacteria frequently encountered in bloodstream infections, including 29 other Salmonella serotypes and 42 strains from 38 other bacterial species. CONCLUSIONS The performance and convenience of our serotype-specific PCR assays should facilitate the rapid and accurate identification of these two major serotypes in a large range of clinical and public health laboratories with access to PCR technology. These assays were developed for use with DNA from cultured isolates, but with modifications to the assay, the CRISPR targets could be used in the development of assays for use with clinical and other samples.
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- Laetitia Fabre
- Unité des Bactéries Pathogènes Entériques, Centre National de Référence des Escherichia coli, Shigella et Salmonella, WHO Collaborative Center for Reference and Research on Salmonella, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Unité des Bactéries Pathogènes Entériques, Centre National de Référence des Escherichia coli, Shigella et Salmonella, WHO Collaborative Center for Reference and Research on Salmonella, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Unité des Bactéries Pathogènes Entériques, Centre National de Référence des Escherichia coli, Shigella et Salmonella, WHO Collaborative Center for Reference and Research on Salmonella, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Unité des Bactéries Pathogènes Entériques, Centre National de Référence des Escherichia coli, Shigella et Salmonella, WHO Collaborative Center for Reference and Research on Salmonella, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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- Unité des Bactéries Pathogènes Entériques, Centre National de Référence des Escherichia coli, Shigella et Salmonella, WHO Collaborative Center for Reference and Research on Salmonella, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Ueda S, Iwase M, Yamaguchi M. Evaluation of the immunochromatographic device for the detection of verotoxins in cultures of food materials. Biocontrol Sci 2014; 19:205-8. [PMID: 25744217 DOI: 10.4265/bio.19.205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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The immunochromatographic assay, which targets Shiga toxin 1/verotoxin 1 (VT1) and/or Shiga toxin 2/verotoxin 2 (VT2) independently with same test device, was used for easily, rapidly and specifically detecting verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli among E. coli strains from food and fecal materials. All 10 strains of VT 1 and/or VT 2- producing E. coli among E. coli isolates from various sources showed a positive reaction to VT1- or VT2- antibodies, but other gram-negative and positive bacterial species had a negative reaction. Bacterial counts of 10(8) cfu/ml in enrichment broth and food suspension were required for the detection of VT-producing E. coli. The IC assay described here could detect easily and specifically the verotoxin-producing E. coli within 20 min by pure culture.
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- Shigeko Ueda
- Laboratory of Hygiene, Kagawa Nutrition University
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Miko A, Delannoy S, Fach P, Strockbine NA, Lindstedt BA, Mariani-Kurkdjian P, Reetz J, Beutin L. Genotypes and virulence characteristics of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104 strains from different origins and sources. Int J Med Microbiol 2013; 303:410-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2013.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2013] [Revised: 05/07/2013] [Accepted: 05/20/2013] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Beutin L, Hammerl JA, Reetz J, Strauch E. Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains from cattle as a source of the Stx2a bacteriophages present in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O104:H4 strains. Int J Med Microbiol 2013; 303:595-602. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2013.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2013] [Revised: 08/01/2013] [Accepted: 08/07/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Shariat N, Sandt CH, DiMarzio MJ, Barrangou R, Dudley EG. CRISPR-MVLST subtyping of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovars Typhimurium and Heidelberg and application in identifying outbreak isolates. BMC Microbiol 2013; 13:254. [PMID: 24219629 PMCID: PMC3840669 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-13-254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2013] [Accepted: 11/04/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovars Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) and Heidelberg (S. Heidelberg) are major causes of foodborne salmonellosis, accounting for a fifth of all annual salmonellosis cases in the United States. Rapid, efficient and accurate methods for identification are required for routine surveillance and to track specific strains during outbreaks. We used Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) and a recently developed molecular subtyping approach termed CRISPR-MVLST that exploits the hypervariable nature of virulence genes and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPRs) to subtype clinical S. Typhimurium and S. Heidelberg isolates. RESULTS We analyzed a broad set of 175 S. Heidelberg and S. Typhimurium isolates collected over a five-year period. We identified 21 Heidelberg Sequence Types (HSTs) and 37 Typhimurium STs (TSTs) that were represented by 27 and 45 PFGE pulsotypes, respectively, and determined the discriminatory power of each method. CONCLUSIONS For S. Heidelberg, our data shows that combined typing by both CRISPR-MVLST and PFGE provided a discriminatory power of 0.9213. Importantly, CRISPR-MVLST was able to separate common PFGE patterns such as JF6X01.0022 into distinct STs, thus providing significantly greater discriminatory power. Conversely, we show that subtyping by either CRISPR-MVLST or PFGE independently provides a sufficient discriminatory power (0.9345 and 0.9456, respectively) for S. Typhimurium. Additionally, using isolates from two S. Typhimurium outbreaks, we demonstrate that CRISPR-MVLST provides excellent epidemiologic concordance.
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- Nikki Shariat
- Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- The Pennsylvania Department of Health, Bureau of Laboratories, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Exton, PA 19341, USA
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- Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Current address: Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
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- Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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Rapid and accurate strain identification is paramount in the battle against microbial outbreaks, and several subtyping approaches have been developed. One such method uses clustered regular interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs), DNA repeat elements that are present in approximately half of all bacteria. Though their signature function is as an adaptive immune system against invading DNA such as bacteriophages and plasmids, CRISPRs also provide an excellent framework for pathogen tracking and evolutionary studies. Analysis of the spacer DNA sequences that reside between the repeats has been tremendously useful for bacterial subtyping during molecular epidemiological investigations. Subtyping, or strain identification, using CRISPRs has been employed in diverse Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Salmonella enterica, and the plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora. This review discusses the several ways in which CRISPR sequences are exploited for subtyping. This includes the well-established spoligotyping methodologies that have been used for 2 decades to type Mycobacterium species, as well as in-depth consideration of newer, higher-throughput CRISPR-based protocols.
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Skinner C, Patfield S, Stanker L, He X. Development of monoclonal antibodies and immunoassays for sensitive and specific detection of Shiga toxin Stx2f. PLoS One 2013; 8:e76563. [PMID: 24069462 PMCID: PMC3775747 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2013] [Accepted: 08/31/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Background Shiga toxin 2 (Stx2) is a major virulence factor in gastrointestinal diseases caused by Escherichia coli. Although Stx2a (prototypical Stx2) is well-studied, all seven subtypes of Stx2 have been associated with disease in mammals. Several subtypes of Stx2, including Stx2f, are difficult to detect immunologically. Methods And Findings Four novel monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against the Stx2f subtype were produced and characterized. These mAbs react exclusively to the Stx2f A subunit, and do not cross-react with other subtypes of Stx2. A Stx2f-specific sandwich ELISA was established and a limit of detection of 0.123 ng/mL was obtained using one pair of the mAbs. The receptor preference of Stx2f was confirmed using this sandwich ELISA. Three out of four mAbs can partially neutralize the toxicity of Stx2f in a cell-based assay. These mAbs were also demonstrated to be highly specific and reactive when applied to colony immunoblot assays. Conclusions Novel mAbs specific to Stx2f were developed for the first time, providing new assets for the STEC community. Immunoassays with improved sensitivity and specificity will be useful for the detection of Stx2f present in food, environmental, and clinical samples.
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- Craig Skinner
- Western Regional Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Albany, California, United States of America
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- Western Regional Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Albany, California, United States of America
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- Western Regional Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Albany, California, United States of America
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- Western Regional Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Albany, California, United States of America
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Yin S, Jensen MA, Bai J, DebRoy C, Barrangou R, Dudley EG. The evolutionary divergence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli is reflected in clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) spacer composition. Appl Environ Microbiol 2013; 79:5710-20. [PMID: 23851088 PMCID: PMC3754162 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00950-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2013] [Accepted: 07/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains, including those of O157:H7 and the "big six" serogroups (i.e., serogroups O26, O45, O103, O111, O121, and O145), are a group of pathogens designated food adulterants in the United States. The relatively conserved nature of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) in phylogenetically related E. coli strains makes them potential subtyping markers for STEC detection, and a quantitative PCR (qPCR)-based assay was previously developed for O26:H11, O45:H2, O103:H2, O111:H8, O121:H19, O145:H28, and O157:H7 isolates. To better evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of this qPCR method, the CRISPR loci of 252 O157 and big-six STEC isolates were sequenced and analyzed along with 563 CRISPR1 and 624 CRISPR2 sequences available in GenBank. General conservation of spacer content and order was observed within each O157 and big-six serogroup, validating the qPCR method. Meanwhile, it was found that spacer deletion, the presence of an insertion sequence, and distinct alleles within a serogroup are sources of false-negative reactions. Conservation of CRISPR arrays among isolates expressing the same flagellar antigen, specifically, H7, H2, and H11, suggested that these isolates share an ancestor and provided an explanation for the false positives previously observed in the qPCR results. An analysis of spacer distribution across E. coli strains provided limited evidence for temporal spacer acquisition. Conversely, comparison of CRISPR sequences between strains along the stepwise evolution of O157:H7 from its O55:H7 ancestor revealed that, over this ∼7,000-year span, spacer deletion was the primary force generating CRISPR diversity.
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- Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- E. coli Reference Center, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Food Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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Discrimination of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) from non-EHEC strains based on detection of various combinations of type III effector genes. J Clin Microbiol 2013; 51:3257-62. [PMID: 23884997 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.01471-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) strains comprise a subgroup of Shiga-toxin (Stx)-producing E. coli (STEC) and are characterized by a few serotypes. Among these, seven priority STEC serotypes (O26:H11, O45:H2, O103:H2, O111:H8, O121:H19, O145:H28, and O157:H7) are most frequently implicated in severe clinical illness worldwide. Currently, standard methods using stx, eae, and O-serogroup-specific gene sequences for detecting the top 7 EHEC serotypes bear the disadvantage that these genes can be found in non-EHEC strains as well. Here, we explored the suitability of ureD, espV, espK, espN, Z2098, and espM1 genes and combinations thereof as candidates for a more targeted EHEC screening assay. For a very large panel of E. coli strains (n = 1,100), which comprised EHEC (n = 340), enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) (n = 392), STEC (n = 193), and apathogenic strains (n = 175), we showed that these genetic markers were more prevalent in EHEC (67.1% to 92.4%) than in EPEC (13.3% to 45.2%), STEC (0.5% to 3.6%), and apathogenic E. coli strains (0 to 2.9%). It is noteworthy that 38.5% of the EPEC strains that tested positive for at least one of these genetic markers belonged to the top 7 EHEC serotypes, suggesting that such isolates might be Stx-negative derivatives of EHEC. The associations of espK with either espV, ureD, or Z2098 were the best combinations for more specific and sensitive detection of the top 7 EHEC strains, allowing detection of 99.3% to 100% of these strains. In addition, detection of 93.7% of the EHEC strains belonging to other serotypes than the top 7 offers a possibility for identifying new emerging EHEC strains.
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Katyal I, Chaban B, Ng B, Hill JE. CRISPRs of Enterococcus faecalis and E. hirae isolates from pig feces have species-specific repeats but share some common spacer sequences. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2013; 66:182-188. [PMID: 23535981 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-013-0217-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2012] [Accepted: 03/11/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) are currently a topic of interest in microbiology due to their role as a prokaryotic immune system. Investigations of CRISPR distribution and characterization to date have focused on pathogenic bacteria, while less is known about CRISPR in commensal bacteria, where they may have a significant role in the ecology of the microbiota of humans and other animals, and act as a recorder of interactions between bacteria and viruses. A combination of PCR and sequencing was used to determine prevalence and distribution of CRISPR arrays in Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus hirae isolates from the feces of healthy pigs. Both type II CRISPR-Cas and Orphan CRISPR (without Cas genes) were detected in the 195 isolates examined. CRISPR-Cas was detected in 52 (46/88) and 42 % (45/107) E. faecalis and E. hirae isolates, respectively. The prevalence of Orphan CRISPR arrays was higher in E. faecalis isolates (95 %, 84/88) compared with E. hirae isolates (49 %, 53/107). Species-specific repeat sequences were identified in Orphan CRISPR arrays, and 42 unique spacer sequences were identified. Only two spacers matched previously characterized pig virome sequences, and many were apparently derived from chromosomal sequences of enterococci. Surprisingly, 17 (40 %) of the spacers were detected in both species. Shared spacer sequences are evidence of a lack of species specificity in the agents and mechanisms responsible for integration of spacers, and the abundance of spacer sequences corresponding to bacterial chromosomal sequences reflects interspecific interactions within the intestinal microbiota.
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- Isha Katyal
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5B4, Canada
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Shariat N, Kirchner MK, Sandt CH, Trees E, Barrangou R, Dudley EG. Subtyping of Salmonella enterica serovar Newport outbreak isolates by CRISPR-MVLST and determination of the relationship between CRISPR-MVLST and PFGE results. J Clin Microbiol 2013; 51:2328-36. [PMID: 23678062 PMCID: PMC3697709 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.00608-13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2013] [Accepted: 05/05/2013] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Newport (S. Newport) is the third most prevalent cause of food-borne salmonellosis. Rapid, efficient, and accurate methods for identification are required to track specific strains of S. Newport during outbreaks. By exploiting the hypervariable nature of virulence genes and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs), we previously developed a sequence-based subtyping approach, designated CRISPR-multi-virulence-locus sequence typing (CRISPR-MVLST). To demonstrate the applicability of this approach, we analyzed a broad set of S. Newport isolates collected over a 5-year period by using CRISPR-MVLST and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Among 84 isolates, we defined 38 S. Newport sequence types (NSTs), all of which were novel compared to our previous analyses, and 62 different PFGE patterns. Our data suggest that both subtyping approaches have high discriminatory abilities (>0.95) with a potential for clustering cases with common exposures. Importantly, we found that isolates from closely related NSTs were often similar by PFGE profile as well, further corroborating the applicability of CRISPR-MVLST. In the first full application of CRISPR-MVLST, we analyzed isolates from a recent S. Newport outbreak. In this blinded study, we confirmed the utility of CRISPR-MVLST and were able to distinguish the 10 outbreak isolates, as defined by PFGE and epidemiological data, from a collection of 20 S. Newport isolates. Together, our data show that CRISPR-MVLST could be a complementary approach to PFGE subtyping for S. Newport.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nikki Shariat
- Department of Food Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Food Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Bureau of Laboratories, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Exton, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
| | - Rodolphe Barrangou
- Department of Food Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
| | - Edward G. Dudley
- Department of Food Science, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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