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Yang W, Shi L, Jia WX, Yin X, Su JY, Kou Y, Yi X, Shinoda S, Miyoshi SI. Evaluation of the Biofilm-Forming Ability and Genetic Typing for Clinical Isolates ofPseudomonas aeruginosaby Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus-Based PCR. Microbiol Immunol 2013; 49:1057-61. [PMID: 16365530 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2005.tb03702.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Biofilm formation is an important phenotype associated with chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. In the present study, a total of 48 P. aeruginosa strains isolated from clinical specimens were examined for their biofilm-forming ability using a microtiter plate method. The different biofilm-forming abilities were demonstrated among the strains; however, most strains formed a larger biofilm than strain PAO1, a reference strain. The genetic typing was also carried out by enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus-based polymerase chain reaction. Although they were divided into five groups (A to E), most of the strains showing the higher biofilm-forming ability were found to be in groups D and E, suggesting a significant relationship between the biofilm-forming ability and the genetic group.
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- Weiqing Yang
- Department of Microbiology, West China School of Basic and Forensic Medical Sciences, Sichuan University, 610041 Chengdu, China
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Pozuelo MJ, Jiménez PA, Valderrey AD, Fernández-Olmos A, Cantón R, Rotger R. [Polymorphism of mucA and fpvA genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from cystic fibrosis patients: co-existence of genetically different variants]. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 2010; 29:26-31. [PMID: 21194804 DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2010.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2010] [Revised: 05/06/2010] [Accepted: 05/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Pseudomonas aeruginosa is able to colonize the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients (CF) in an adaptive process that results in the selection of a dominant strain through a process of genetic variation. METHODS One hundred and twenty tree isolates of P. aeruginosa were sequentially recovered from 6 CF patients during the routine follow-up or exacerbations over periods of 2 to 12 years in the Ramon y Cajal University Hospital (Madrid, Spain). Another 13 isolates were obtained from a single CF patient in a short-term study. They were analysed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and sequencing of mucA and fpvA genes, which code for the alginate biosynthesis regulator and a pyoverdin receptor, respectively, and their antibiotic susceptibility was studied by microdilution. RESULTS A dominant colonising strain was found in each patient based on the RFLP profile. The polymorphisms of mucA and fpvA genes correlated well with these profiles, but suggested a relationship between strains isolated from two brothers, not inferred by RFLP. Stop codon mutations in mucA were unique to each dominant strain, indicating the adaptive process suffered. The alternate detection of the same mucA and/or fpvA genotypic variants suggested the coexistence of several subpopulations. This hypothesis was confirmed in a prospective study in which 6 variants were isolated in 7 days from the same patient. CONCLUSIONS Genotypic variants of the P. aeruginosa dominant strains can coexist in the chronic colonization in CF patients. These variants can be undetected by RFLP and they might present variable antibiotic susceptibility.
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- María José Pozuelo
- Departamento de Biología Celular, Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid, España
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Stehling EG, Leite DS, Silveira WD. Molecular typing and biological characteristics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from cystic fibrosis patients in Brazil. Braz J Infect Dis 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s1413-8670(10)70094-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Hafiane A, Ravaoarinoro M. [Various typing methods of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from cystic fibrosis patients]. Med Mal Infect 2008; 38:238-47. [PMID: 18394837 DOI: 10.1016/j.medmal.2008.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2007] [Revised: 11/09/2007] [Accepted: 02/12/2008] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Typing methods are essential to understand the epidemiology of bacterial infections. Strain typing is important for the detection of sources or routes of infections, identification between endemic and epidemic strains and prevention of transmission between patients. Some Pseudomonas aeruginosa cystic-fibrosis strains could not be typed with conventional typing methods. Due to the diverse phenotypic nature of P. aeruginosa, phenotyping methods are not discriminatory enough to identify strains belonging to the same genotype. Thus, molecular typing methods are required. These methods should be applied when data from phenotypic typing analysis becomes ambiguous, such as in cystic fibrosis. Molecular typing methods, developed over the past decade, are highly discriminatory in capacity and reproducibility. However, they are more likely applied in specialized laboratories since they are expensive and increase the workload. A reliable and low-cost typing system is required for better defining the epidemiology of this pathogen and designing more rational policies of infection control. Comparison between typing methods will pinpoint the limits and effectiveness of each method and will improve in turn the choice of a nonspecialized laboratory in terms of simplicity, time and cost.
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- A Hafiane
- Department of Medical microbiology and Infectiology, CHUM Hôtel-Dieu, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Spacov ICG, Silva SAMD, Morais Júnior MAD, Morais MMCD. Polymorphism of the rDNA and tDNA loci in clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a perspective for molecular epidemiology surveillance. Genet Mol Biol 2006. [DOI: 10.1590/s1415-47572006000400023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Onteniente L, Brisse S, Tassios PT, Vergnaud G. Evaluation of the polymorphisms associated with tandem repeats for Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain typing. J Clin Microbiol 2004; 41:4991-7. [PMID: 14605129 PMCID: PMC262500 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.41.11.4991-4997.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We report on the development of a scheme for the typing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, multiple-locus variable number of tandem repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA). We first evaluated the polymorphisms of 201 tandem repeat loci selected from more than 3,000 such sequences present in strain PAO1 with a test collection of 12 genotypically distinct clinical strains. Seven VNTR loci which can be easily scored with the technology used here were identified and used to genotype a collection of 89 clinical isolates that had previously been classified into 46 ribotypes, including 2 widespread ribotypes. Seventy-one different MLVA genotypes could be distinguished. With only two exceptions, strains with identical ribotypes were grouped together upon cluster analysis of the MLVA data. The 27 isolates with the most frequent ribotype were divided into 14 MLVA types, and the 18 isolates with the second most frequent ribotype were divided into 15 MLVA types. Analysis of a subset of 17 strains belonging to the major ribotype by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis with the enzyme SpeI distinguished seven types, identical to the number of MLVA types in this subset. Our data show that MLVA typing of P. aeruginosa based on the first set of loci has a high discriminatory power. Because MLVA is highly reproducible and easily portable among laboratories, it represents a very promising tool for the molecular surveillance of P. aeruginosa. A free, online strain identification service based on the genotyping data produced herein has been developed.
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- Lucie Onteniente
- Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, Université Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay cedex, France
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Botes J, Williamson G, Sinickas V, Gürtler V. Genomic typing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates by comparison of Riboprinting and PFGE: correlation of experimental results with those predicted from the complete genome sequence of isolate PAO1. J Microbiol Methods 2003; 55:231-40. [PMID: 14500014 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7012(03)00156-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The whole genomic typing of 21 isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from 15 intensive care unit (ICU) patients was performed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE using SpeI) and Riboprinting (using EcoRI and PvuII), and then the results were compared with predictions made from the whole genome sequence of P. aeruginosa PAO1. The analysis of electronic images from PFGE and Riboprinting by GelComparII demonstrated similar discrimination between PFGE and Riboprinting with PvuII enzyme; however, Riboprinting by EcoRI had reduced banding patterns and was shown to be of lower discrimination than PvuII. When analyzing isolates from patients, both PFGE and Riboprinting using PvuII enzyme gave equivalent results, with the exception of two isolates that were closely related by PvuII Riboprinting and unrelated by PFGE. These discrepancies in typing results can be explained and adjusted for by comparisons with the rrn properties and the SpeI restriction fragments predicted from the whole genome of P. aeruginosa PAO1. Properties of the rrn operon that need to be taken into account include: (i) restriction enzyme sites that produce one or two fragments for each rrn operon; (ii) genomic variability in ISR sequence length; (iii) different enzymes need to be used to determine differences in rrn operon copy number from Riboprints; and (iv) choice of a restriction enzyme that produces riboprinter bands derived from rrn operon regions that are highly variable within the genome and between isolates. This knowledge has ramifications for PFGE and Riboprinter design and analysis so that for each new species to be typed comparisons can be made using the whole genome sequence.
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- Jeannie Botes
- Department of Microbiology, Melbourne Health Shared Pathology Services, C/O Post Office, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville 3050, Australia
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Severino P, Magalhães VD. The role of integrons in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance among clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from an intensive care unit in Brazil. Res Microbiol 2002; 153:221-6. [PMID: 12066893 DOI: 10.1016/s0923-2508(02)01310-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Eighty-five Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates resistant to various antibiotics were selected from the intensive care unit of a Brazilian hospital and analyzed for integron content by PCR. Fifty-four of them had class-1-related integrons, some of which were identical. Integron-positive isolates were statistically more resistant to aminoglicoside, quinolone and beta-lactam compounds. Ribotyping of integron-positive isolates demonstrated the presence of identical integrons among genetically unrelated strains in the hospital environment, confirming its role in the spread of gene cassettes in bacterial populations of clinical importance.
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- Patricia Severino
- Laboratório de Pesquisa, Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa, Hospital Albert Einstein, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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Rivas AL, Bodis M, Bruce JL, Anderson KL, Klein RF, González RN, Quimby FW, Batt CA, Lein DH. Molecular epidemiologic features and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of various ribotypes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from humans and ruminants. Am J Vet Res 2001; 62:864-70. [PMID: 11400842 DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.2001.62.864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To assess automated ribotyping for characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates and to identify their type prevalence and geographic distribution. SAMPLE POPULATION 39 human and 56 ruminant P aeruginosa isolates. PROCEDURES Isolates were identified by use of bacteriologic techniques and automated Pvull-based ribotyping. Susceptibility to antimicrobials was tested in vitro. Data were analyzed for index of discrimination; prevalence ratio; geographic distribution of ribotypes found only in humans, only in cows, or only in goats (single-host ribotypes); and geographic distribution of ribotypes found in humans and ruminants (multihost ribotypes). RESULTS All isolates were typeable (45 ribotypes, 35 single-host ribotypes). Ribotyping index of discrimination was 0.976. More isolates (45.3%) than expected yielded multihost ribotypes (22% of all ribotypes). Although 8.6% of single-host ribotypes were found in 4 or more isolates, 60% of multihost ribotypes were found in 4 or more isolates. Ninety percent of multihost ribotypes were isolated from different geographic areas, whereas 3.0% of single-host ribotypes were isolated from different geographic areas. All ruminant isolates were susceptible to gentamicin and polymyxin B. In contrast, antibiogram profiles differed for human isolates from different geographic areas. Susceptibility to antimicrobials differentiated 6 isolates not distinguished by ribotyping. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE Automated ribotyping with Pvull discriminated more isolates than in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility. In combination, both tests provided more information than either test alone. Given the greater prevalence and geographic distribution of multihost ribotypes, immunocompromised humans and lactating ruminants may have a greater risk for disease if exposed to multihost P aeruginosa ribotypes, compared with single-host ribotypes.
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- A L Rivas
- Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
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Al-Samarrai TH, Zhang N, Lamont IL, Martin L, Kolbe J, Wilsher M, Morris AJ, Schmid J. Simple and inexpensive but highly discriminating method for computer-assisted DNA fingerprinting of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J Clin Microbiol 2000; 38:4445-52. [PMID: 11101578 PMCID: PMC87619 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.12.4445-4452.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2000] [Accepted: 09/18/2000] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We describe here a method for computer-assisted fingerprinting of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In this method, DNA is digested with SalI, and bands with molecular sizes of >/=9.7 kb are visually scored after electrophoresis on agarose gels. Pattern scores are entered into a Microsoft Excel database. In scoring, the number of bands within each of a set of molecular size ranges is scored, rather than the absolute molecular size of each band, substantially enhancing the speed and reproducibility of the method, while eliminating the need for using expensive gel scanning equipment and software. Pattern scores are used to generate matrices of genetic distance values, which can be visualized in neighbor-joining trees. The method reliably distinguishes two epidemiologically unrelated isolates in 99.3% of all comparisons. The genetic relationships between isolates observed with the method were consistent with those obtained by analysis of two P. aeruginosa genes, indicating that it provides valid estimates of genetic divergence between isolates. Using the method, respiratory tract isolates from cystic fibrosis patients in Green Lane Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, were shown to be genetically less diverse than epidemiologically unrelated isolates from other patients. This finding was not due to the existence of clusters of related strains specialized toward colonization of the respiratory tract and thus was indicative of transmission between patients. Analysis of multiple isolates from individual cystic fibrosis patients suggested that up to five separate clusters of genetically related strains may simultaneously be present in a patient. The method described should significantly enhance our ability to investigate the epidemiology of P. aeruginosa.
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- T H Al-Samarrai
- Institute of Molecular BioSciences, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Brisse S, Milatovic D, Fluit AC, Kusters K, Toelstra A, Verhoef J, Schmitz FJ. Molecular surveillance of European quinolone-resistant clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter spp. using automated ribotyping. J Clin Microbiol 2000; 38:3636-45. [PMID: 11015376 PMCID: PMC87449 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.10.3636-3645.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2000] [Accepted: 08/11/2000] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Nosocomial isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter spp. exhibit high rates of resistance to antibiotics and are often multidrug resistant. In a previous study (D. Milatovic, A. Fluit, S. Brisse, J. Verhoef, and F. J. Schmitz, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 44:1102-1107, 2000), isolates of these species that were resistant to sitafloxacin, a new advanced-generation fluoroquinolone with a high potency and a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity, were found in high proportion in 23 European hospitals. Here, we investigate the clonal diversity of the 155 P. aeruginosa and 145 Acinetobacter spp. sitafloxacin-resistant isolates from that study by automated ribotyping. Numerous ribogroups (sets of isolates with indistinguishable ribotypes) were found among isolates of P. aeruginosa (n = 34) and Acinetobacter spp. (n = 16), but the majority of the isolates belonged to a limited number of major ribogroups. Sitafloxacin-resistant isolates (MICs > 2 mg/liter, used as a provisional breakpoint) showed increased concomitant resistance to piperacillin, piperacillin-tazobactam, ceftriaxone, ceftazidime, amikacin, gentamicin, and imipenem. The major ribogroups were repeatedly found in isolates from several European hospitals; these isolates showed higher levels of resistance to gentamicin and imipenem, and some of them appeared to correspond to previously described multidrug-resistant international clones of P. aeruginosa (serotype O:12) and Acinetobacter baumannii (clones I and II). Automated ribotyping, when used in combination with more discriminatory typing methods, may be a convenient library typing system for monitoring future epidemiological dynamics of geographically widespread multidrug-resistant bacterial clones.
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- S Brisse
- Eijkman-Winkler Institute, Utrecht University, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Pujana I, Gallego L, Canduela MJ, Cisterna R. Specific and rapid identification of multiple-antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clones isolated in an intensive care unit. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2000; 36:65-8. [PMID: 10744371 DOI: 10.1016/s0732-8893(99)00113-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Seventeen multiple-antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates were collected from two patients hospitalized in the same intensive care unit. They showed a parallel acquisition of resistance to antibiotics and they were, therefore, thought to have a common clonal origin. These strains were typed by biotyping, serotyping, plasmid profile, three different PCR-based techniques, and macrorestriction analysis to determine their relationship. Only the use of PCR techniques and macrorestriction analysis allowed an accurate identification of the clones and revealed that each patient was infected by A unique multidrug-resistant strain. Therefore, there was no cross-infection or reinfection with a new strain.
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- I Pujana
- Departamento de Inmunología, Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina y Odontología, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain
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Martin C, Boyd EF, Quentin R, Massicot P, Selander RK. Enzyme polymorphism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains recovered from cystic fibrosis patients in France. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1999; 145 ( Pt 9):2587-2594. [PMID: 10517612 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-145-9-2587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Each of 314 strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa recovered from 87 French cystic fibrosis (CF) patients was typed by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis to investigate the genetic diversity, the relatedness and the molecular epidemiology of strains isolated from cases of chronic pulmonary colonization. Comparison of allele profiles at 18 enzyme loci identified 17 electrophoretic types (ETs). Of the 314 isolates, 290 (92%) were either ET1 (n = 127) or ET2 (n = 163), which differed only at the shikimate dehydrogenase (SKD) locus. The mean genetic diversity (H) was 0.138. These results suggest that there is cross-colonization between patients and/or that two predominant groups of strains are able to colonize French CF patients. Sequential isolates collected from 18 patients during a period of 12-28 months were analysed to assess genomic variability and its relationship to clinical outcome. Six patients were colonized by a stable strain. For the others, double infections or changes in colonization over time were observed. No relationships were detected between the clinical outcome and the persistence of stable isolates, the emergence of transient superinfecting variants, the presence of multiple ETs or the shift of ET during the monitoring.
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- Christian Martin
- Département de Microbiologie Médicale et Moléculaire, Unité de Bactériologie, CHU Bretonneau, 37044 Tours Cedex 1, France1
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- Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University Park, PA 16801, USA2
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- Département de Microbiologie Médicale et Moléculaire, Unité de Bactériologie, CHU Bretonneau, 37044 Tours Cedex 1, France1
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- Centre Héliomarin, 19 Boulevard Félix Faure, 17370 Saint Trojan-les-Bains, France3
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- Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University Park, PA 16801, USA2
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Colding H, Hartzen SH, Roshanisefat H, Andersen LP, Krogfelt KA. Molecular methods for typing of Helicobacter pylori and their applications. FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY 1999; 24:193-9. [PMID: 10378420 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695x.1999.tb01282.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Microbial typing is a useful tool in clinical epidemiology for defining the source and route of infection, for studying the persistence and reinfection rates, clonal selection in the host and bacterial evolution. Phenotypic methods such as biotyping, serotyping and hemagglutinin typing have little discriminatory power compared to genotypic methods concerning the typing of Helicobacter pylori. Therefore great efforts have been made to establish useful molecular typing methods. In this context, the most frequently used genotypic methods are described based on our own experience and the literature: (1) restriction endonuclease analysis, (2) endonuclease analysis using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, (3) ribotyping, (4) polymerase chain reaction (using either random primers or repetitive DNA sequence primers), and (5) polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of e.g. the urease genes. Furthermore, reproducibility, discriminatory power, ease of performance and interpretation, cost and toxic procedures of each method are assessed. To date no direct comparison of all the molecular typing methods described has been performed in the same study with the same H. pylori strains. However, PCR analysis of the urease gene directly on suspensions of H. pylori or gastric biopsy material seems to be useful for routine use and applicable in specific epidemiological situations.
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- H Colding
- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Pujana I, Gallego L, Martín G, López F, Canduela J, Cisterna R. Epidemiological analysis of sequential Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from chronic bronchiectasis patients without cystic fibrosis. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37:2071-3. [PMID: 10325384 PMCID: PMC85036 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.6.2071-2073.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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PCR fingerprinting was used for the epidemiological investigation of 64 Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates collected from 16 chronic bronchiectasis patients without cystic fibrosis: 56% of the patients harbored one clone, 12.5% carried a single major type with minor variants, and 31.5% carried two clones. Only a minority of the acquisitions of antibiotic resistance was related to the acquisition of exogenous strains. Mucoid and nonmucoid sets of isolates did not display any consistent differences in their patterns. The genetic similarity among the clones ranged from 10 to 69%. Cross-infection or common-source exposure did not appear to have occurred.
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- I Pujana
- Departamento de Inmunología, Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina y Odontología, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.
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Daly M, Power E, Björkroth J, Sheehan P, O'Connell A, Colgan M, Korkeala H, Fanning S. Molecular analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: epidemiological investigation of mastitis outbreaks in Irish dairy herds. Appl Environ Microbiol 1999; 65:2723-9. [PMID: 10347067 PMCID: PMC91402 DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.6.2723-2729.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a pathogen in both humans and animals. This bacterium, most often associated with respiratory infections in cystic fibrosis patients, was found to be the causative agent in bovine mastitis outbreaks among 11 Irish dairy herds. Epidemiological findings suggested that the infection was spread to all herds by teat wipes that had been contaminated with this organism. Two molecular-typing strategies were used in an attempt to determine the genomic relationship(s), if any, of the P. aeruginosa strains isolated from the various herds and to verify whether the same strain was responsible for each outbreak. Thirty-six isolates from the mastitis outbreaks were tested and compared to fourteen clinical isolates from Cork University Hospital. With one exception, all outbreak-linked strains produced identical patterns when ribotyped with ClaI and PvuII enzymes. Eight of the clinical isolates gave the same ClaI ribotype pattern as the mastitis-causing strains. However, PvuII proved more discriminatory, with only the outbreak isolates producing identical patterns. Similar results were obtained with RW3A-primed DNA amplification fingerprinting, with all outbreak isolates except one displaying the same fingerprint array. The clinical strains produced several fingerprint patterns, all of which were different from those of the mastitis-causing isolates. Fine-resolution DNA fingerprinting with a fluorescence-labelled RW3A primer also identified a number of low-molecular-weight polymorphisms that would have remained undetected by conventional methods. These data support the view that the same P. aeruginosa strain was responsible for the mastitis outbreaks in all 11 herds.
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- M Daly
- Molecular Diagnostics Unit, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland
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Hsueh PR, Teng LJ, Yang PC, Chen YC, Ho SW, Luh KT. Persistence of a multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clone in an intensive care burn unit. J Clin Microbiol 1998; 36:1347-51. [PMID: 9574703 PMCID: PMC104826 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.5.1347-1351.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Long-term colonization of various body sites with a multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clone (resistant to piperacillin, cefoperazone, ceftazidime, aztreonam, imipenem, cefepime, cefpirome, ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, minocycline, and aminoglycosides) with subsequent severe infections in burn patients has not been reported previously. Thirty-nine isolates of multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa (resistant to ceftazidime and at least three of the agents listed above) recovered from various clinical samples from three patients in an intensive care burn unit from April 1997 to May 1997 and seven preserved isolates recovered from six patients in other medical wards at National Taiwan University Hospital from April 1996 to May 1997 were studied for their epidemiological relatedness. The epidemic could be attributed to a multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa clone belonging to serogroup O:F (serogroup O:4) by means of antimicrobial susceptibility testing, O serogrouping, and analysis of the randomly amplified polymorphic DNA patterns generated by arbitrarily primed PCR of the isolates. The epidemic strain persisted in the three patients for weeks to months; in the meantime, these patients had received multiple antimicrobial agents for the management of intervening episodes of invasive infections (bacteremia, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and/or catheter-related sepsis) caused by this strain, as well as concomitant infections due to other organisms. The strain had been isolated only once previously, from a burn patient who was on the unit in December 1996. The present report, describing a small outbreak due to P. aeruginosa, documents the fact that a single clone of multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa can cause long-term persistence in different body sites of burn patients and that the colonization can subsequently result in various severe infections.
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- P R Hsueh
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei
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FERRUS MARÍAA, HERNANDEZ MANUEL, HABA JAVIERHERNANDEZ. Ribotyping ofPseudomonas aeruginosafrom infected patients: evidence of common strain types. APMIS 1998. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1998.tb01371.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Hernández J, Ferrus MA, Hernández M, Owen RJ. Arbitrary primed PCR fingerprinting and serotyping of clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains. FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY 1997; 17:37-47. [PMID: 9012442 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-695x.1997.tb00994.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Arbitrary primed PCR (AP-PCR) analysis was compared with serotyping as a means of high-resolution typing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Seventy-four isolates from 3 different hospitals and 18 reference strains were studied. Serotyping provided good index of discrimination, although eleven isolates could not be serotyped. Genomic DNA was amplified with a single 10 nucleotide primer (sequence 5'-AGG GGT CTT G-3'). The strains were genetically diverse and 61 different AP-PCR profiles of 2-7 bands between 0.3 and 2.4 kb were obtained. AP-PCR profiles were not consistently associated with serotypes, but they clearly subtyped strains of the same serotype. Numerical analysis of AP-PCR patterns defined 7 groups at the 55% similarity level, and identified predominant strains in each hospital. The results show that AP-PCR analysis provides a simple and practical approach to typing P. aeruginosa that is more discriminatory than traditional serotyping scheme. We suggest that maximum discrimination can be achieved by a combination of both methods.
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- J Hernández
- Departamento de Biotecnología, Universidad Politécnica, Valencia, Spain.
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Renders N, Römling U, Verbrugh H, van Belkum A. Comparative typing of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by random amplification of polymorphic DNA or pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of DNA macrorestriction fragments. J Clin Microbiol 1996; 34:3190-5. [PMID: 8940470 PMCID: PMC229481 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.12.3190-3195.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Eighty-seven strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were typed by random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of macrorestriction fragments. Stains were clustered on the basis of interpretative criteria as presented previously for the PFGE analysis. Clusters of strains were also defined on the basis of epidemiological data and subsequently reanalyzed by RAPD. It was found that in an RAPD assay employing the enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequence ERIC2 as a primer, single band differences can be ignored; in this case, clonally related strains could be grouped as effectively and reliably as with PFGE. These data could be corroborated by the use of other primer species. However, some primers either showed reduced resolution or, in contrast, identified DNA polymorphisms beyond epidemiologically and PFGE-defined limits. Apparently, different primers define different windows of genetic variation. It is suggested that criteria for interpretation of the ERIC2 PCR fingerprints can be simple and straightforward: when single band differences are ignored, RAPD-determined grouping of P. aeruginosa is congruent with that obtained by PFGE. Consequently, this implies that RAPD can be used with trust as a first screen in epidemiological characterization of P. aeruginosa. The ability to measure the rate of molecular evolution of the P. aeruginosa genome clearly depends on the choice of restriction enzyme or primer when RAPD or PFGE, respectively, is applied for the detection of DNA polymorphisms.
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- N Renders
- Department of Bacteriology, University Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Nociari MM, Catalano M, Torrero M, Sordelli DO. Pseudomonas aeruginosa ribotyping: stability and interpretation of ribosomal operon restriction patterns. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 1996; 25:27-33. [PMID: 8831042 DOI: 10.1016/0732-8893(96)00059-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Fifty-one Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates were differentiated into 21 types by ribotyping. Several enzyme combinations, including the best ones proposed in literature, were utilized and the highest discrimination was reached by individual digestion with PvuII, HindII, and EcoRI or BamHI. Clinical isolates from outbreaks were clonally related as identified by this molecular approach. Restriction rDNA profiles were composed of strong and weak bands. Using 6 micrograms DNA we were able to demonstrate that PvuII, HindIII, and BamHI weak bands were reproducible. These weak bands should be considered not only to accomplish the highest discrimination but also to correctly assign isolate clonality. Conversely, we found that EcoRI weak bands were not reproducible and, therefore, are not recommended for ribotype analysis. Finally, profiles differing in one single band actually represented isolates of different genotype, as confirmed by further analysis using other molecular methods. In this report on P. Aeruginosa ribotyping of clinical isolates, criteria for band pattern interpretation are established.
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- M M Nociari
- Departamento de Microbiología, Parasitología e Immunología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Nociari MM, Catalano M, Centrón García D, Copenhaver SC, Vasil ML, Sordelli DO. Comparative usefulness of ribotyping, exotoxin A genotyping, and SalI restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis for Pseudomonas aeruginosa lineage assessment. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 1996; 24:179-90. [PMID: 8831031 DOI: 10.1016/0732-8893(96)00029-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Ribotyping, exotoxin A genotyping (EAGP), and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of total DNA with SalI (SalI RFLP) were compared for intraspecies discrimination of 93 Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates. Type-ability of all methods was 100% and the results of typing with each method remained unchanged during laboratory manipulation. Clonal groups defined with each molecular method were largely coincident and, in those cases where inconsistencies were detected, isolates were analyzed by transverse alternating field gel electrophoresis (TAFE) and arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (AP-PCR). SalI RFLP analysis was highly discriminative so as to distinguish unrelated isolates of close lineage. However, it was not a good method to identify isolates of unrelated lineage because SalI RFLP appeared to be subjected to convergent evolution. The index of discrimination suggested by Hunter and Gaston was determined to assess the discriminatory power of the molecular methods utilized either alone or in several combinations. Combined use of ribotyping and SalI RFLP analysis reached the highest index of discrimination (0.982) and proved to be a very valuable tool for epidemiological differentiation of P. aeruginosa isolates.
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- M M Nociari
- Departamento de Microbiología, Parasitología e Inmunología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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