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Ogawa M, Matsumoto K, Parola P, Philippe P, Raoult D, Brouqui P. Expression of rOmpA and rOmpB protein in Rickettsia massiliae during the Rhipicephalus turanicus life cycle. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2007; 1078:352-6. [PMID: 17114739 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1374.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Rhipicephalus turanicus tick colony infected in the laboratory with Rickettsia massiliae showed that the rickettsia is transovarially and transdatially tramsmitted. The expression of rOmpB did not change with temperature or the stages of the tick life cycle. In contrast, rOmpA was less expressed during the larval stage.
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- Motohiko Ogawa
- Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR 48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
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Yu Y, Kowalczewska M, Decloquement P, Nappez C, La Scola B. Production of monoclonal antibodies to Tropheryma whipplei and identification of recognized epitopes by two-dimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry. J Clin Microbiol 2006; 44:4179-85. [PMID: 16988020 PMCID: PMC1698362 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.01714-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2006] [Revised: 08/28/2006] [Accepted: 09/05/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Tropheryma whipplei, the agent of Whipple's disease, is a gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium that belongs to the group of actinobacteria. In order to produce monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) against this bacterium, we inoculated mice with two different strains, Slow2 and Endo5. We produced 13 and 10 MAbs against Slow2 and Endo5, respectively. Nine of the Slow2 MAbs and seven of the Endo5 MAbs recognized a 58-kDa epitope. In addition, three other Endo5 MAbs detected a unique 84-kDa epitope. These MAbs were species specific, as they did not react with a selection of 22 different bacterial species, but they were not strain specific, as they did react with six other strains of T. whipplei. Two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE) was combined with mass spectrometry (MS) to identify the 58-kDa and 84-kDa epitopes recognized by MAbs. After trypsin in-gel digestion of the spot, the 58-kDa protein was identified as an ATP synthase F1 complex beta chain, whereas the 84-kDa protein was identified as a polyribonucleotide nucleotidyltransferase by MS with matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight. In an in vitro model, one of these MAbs allowed good detection of T. whipplei in stool samples, contrary to a rabbit polyclonal antibody, which led to high fluorescent background. In the prospective studies, the produced MAb will be tested for detection of T. whipplei in clinical samples, and the gene coding for identified 58-kDa and 84-kDa antigens will be tentatively cloned and then tested for its use in a diagnostic enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for Whipple's disease.
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- Yuefei Yu
- Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France
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Eremeeva ME, Bosserman EA, Demma LJ, Zambrano ML, Blau DM, Dasch GA. Isolation and identification of Rickettsia massiliae from Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks collected in Arizona. Appl Environ Microbiol 2006; 72:5569-77. [PMID: 16885311 PMCID: PMC1538723 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00122-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Twenty Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks collected in eastern Arizona were tested by PCR assay to establish their infection rate with spotted fever group rickettsiae. With a nested PCR assay which detects a fragment of the Rickettsia genus-specific 17-kDa antigen gene (htrA), five ticks (25%) were found to contain rickettsial DNA. One rickettsial isolate was obtained from these ticks by inoculating a suspension of a triturated tick into monolayers of Vero E6 monkey kidney cells and XTC-2 clawed toad cells, and its cell culture and genotypic characteristics were determined. Fragments of the 16S rRNA, GltA, rOmpA, rOmpB, and Sca4 genes had 100%, 100%, 99%, 99%, and 99%, respectively, nucleotide similarity to Rickettsia massiliae strain Bar29, previously isolated from R. sanguineus in Catalonia, Spain (L. Beati et al., J. Clin. Microbiol. 34:2688-2694, 1996). The new isolate, AZT80, does not elicit cytotoxic effects in Vero cells and causes a persistent infection in XTC-2 cells. The AZT80 strain is susceptible to doxycycline but resistant to rifampin and erythromycin. Whether R. massiliae AZT80 is pathogenic or infectious for dogs and humans or can cause seroconversion to spotted fever group antigens in the United States is unknown.
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- Marina E Eremeeva
- Viral and Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
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Fang R, Raoult D. Antigenic classification of Rickettsia felis by using monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY IMMUNOLOGY 2003; 10:221-8. [PMID: 12626446 PMCID: PMC150527 DOI: 10.1128/cdli.10.2.221-228.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Rickettsia felis is a flea-transmitted rickettsia. There is a discrepancy between its reported phylogenic and phenotypic identifications. Following the first report of R. felis, it was considered by tests with serologic reagents to be closely related to another recognized flea-transmitted rickettia, R. typhi. Subsequently, it appeared to be more closely related to spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae by genetic analysis. In the present work, R. felis was studied by microimmunofluorescence (MIF) serologic typing and with monoclonal antibodies (MAbs). Mouse polyclonal antisera to R. felis cross-reacted only with SFG rickettsiae. A neighbor-joining analysis based on MIF indicated that R. felis is actually related to SFG rickettsiae antigenically, clustering with R. australis, R. akari, and R. montanensis. A panel of 21 MAbs was raised against a 120-kDa protein antigen or a 17-kDa polypeptide of R. felis. They cross-reacted with most members of the SFG rickettsiae but not with R. prowazekii, R. typhi, or R. canadensis of the typhus group (TG) rickettsiae. Sixty-four MAbs previously generated to seven other ricketttsial species were tested with R. felis. Three MAbs reacted with the 120-kDa antigen and were generated by R. africae, R. conorii, and R. akari, respectively. They exhibited cross-reactivities with R. felis. All our data show that R. felis harbors the antigenic profile of an SFG rickettsia.
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- Rong Fang
- Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR 48, Faculté de Médecine, 13385 Marseille, France
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Fang R, Houhamdi L, Raoult D. Detection of Rickettsia prowazekii in body lice and their feces by using monoclonal antibodies. J Clin Microbiol 2002; 40:3358-63. [PMID: 12202579 PMCID: PMC130794 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.40.9.3358-3363.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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In order to identify Rickettsia prowazekii in lice, we developed a panel of 29 representative monoclonal antibodies selected from 187 positive hybridomas made by fusing splenocytes of immunized mice with SP2/0-Ag14 myeloma cells. Immunoblotting revealed that 15 monoclonal antibodies reacted with the lipopolysaccharide-like (LPS-L) antigen and 14 reacted with the epitopes of a 120-kDa protein. Only typhus group rickettsiae reacted with the monoclonal antibodies against LPS-L. R. felis, a recently identified rickettsial species, did not react with these monoclonal antibodies, confirming that it is not antigenically related to the typhus group. Monoclonal antibodies against the 120-kDa protein were highly specific for R. prowazekii. We successfully applied a selected monoclonal antibody against the 120-kDa protein to detect by immunofluorescence assay R. prowazekii in smears from 56 wild and laboratory lice, as well as in 10 samples of louse feces infected or not infected with the organism. We have developed a simple, practical, and specific diagnostic assay for clinical specimens and large-scale epidemiological surveys with a sensitivity of 91%. These monoclonal antibodies could be added to the rickettsial diagnostic panel and be used to differentiate R. prowazekii from other rickettsial species.
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- Rong Fang
- Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR 48, Faculty of Medicine, 13385 Marseille, France
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Parola P, Raoult D. Ticks and tickborne bacterial diseases in humans: an emerging infectious threat. Clin Infect Dis 2001; 32:897-928. [PMID: 11247714 DOI: 10.1086/319347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 711] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2000] [Revised: 07/21/2000] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Ticks are currently considered to be second only to mosquitoes as vectors of human infectious diseases in the world. Each tick species has preferred environmental conditions and biotopes that determine the geographic distribution of the ticks and, consequently, the risk areas for tickborne diseases. This is particularly the case when ticks are vectors and reservoirs of the pathogens. Since the identification of Borrelia burgdorferi as the agent of Lyme disease in 1982, 15 ixodid-borne bacterial pathogens have been described throughout the world, including 8 rickettsiae, 3 ehrlichiae, and 4 species of the Borrelia burgdorferi complex. This article reviews and illustrate various aspects of the biology of ticks and the tickborne bacterial diseases (rickettsioses, ehrlichioses, Lyme disease, relapsing fever borrelioses, tularemia, Q fever), particularly those regarded as emerging diseases. Methods are described for the detection and isolation of bacteria from ticks and advice is given on how tick bites may be prevented and how clinicians should deal with patients who have been bitten by ticks.
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- P Parola
- Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, Université de la Méditerranée, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France
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Zhang JZ, Fan MY, Wu YM, Fournier PE, Roux V, Raoult D. Genetic classification of "Rickettsia heilongjiangii" and "Rickettsia hulinii," two Chinese spotted fever group rickettsiae. J Clin Microbiol 2000; 38:3498-501. [PMID: 10970415 PMCID: PMC87418 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.38.9.3498-3501.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2000] [Accepted: 07/05/2000] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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To determine the phylogenetic position of two new rickettsial strains isolated from ticks in China, 16S ribosomal DNA, gltA, and ompA (apart from the tandem repeat units) genes were amplified by PCR and sequenced. The phylogenetic relationships between these strains and other rickettsiae were inferred from the comparison of sequences of the three genes by the parsimony, neighbor-joining, and maximum-likelihood methods. The results demonstrated that the 054 strain, a rickettsia pathogenic in humans, and the HL-93 strain were related and clustered together with Rickettsia japonica. Significant statistical bootstrap values (100 and 92%) supported the nodes in this cluster. Based on previous genotypic and antigenic data and the phylogenetic analysis presented here, the 054 and HL-93 strains should be considered as new species, and we formally propose that they be named "Rickettsia heilongjiangii" and "Rickettsia hulinii," respectively.
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- J Z Zhang
- Unité des Rickettsies, Faculté de Médecine, CNRS UPRES-A6020, 13385 Marseille Cedex 05, France
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Uchiyama T. Phenotypic and genotypic homogeneity of the strains of Rickettsia japonica isolated from patients with Oriental spotted fever. Microbiol Immunol 1999; 43:717-21. [PMID: 10529114 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1999.tb02461.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Nine pathogenic strains of Rickettsia japonica isolated from patients with Oriental spotted fever were compared phenotypically and genotypically. Constitution and antigenicity of the proteins demonstrated to be the same among strains. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the two major outer membrane protein genes (ompA and ompB) and an intracellular spotted fever group-common antigen protein gene (rps120) produced the same sizes of products for all strains. Restriction fragment length polymorphism of the PCR products showed the same pattern among strains with each endonuclease. Thus, these strains belong to a single type, the same as the type strain YH (=ATCC VR-1363).
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- T Uchiyama
- Department of Virology, School of Medicine, The University of Tokushima, Japan.
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Xu W, Raoult D. Taxonomic relationships among spotted fever group rickettsiae as revealed by antigenic analysis with monoclonal antibodies. J Clin Microbiol 1998; 36:887-96. [PMID: 9542904 PMCID: PMC104656 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.4.887-896.1998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The spotted fever group (SFG) is made up of more than 20 different rickettsial species and strains. Study of the taxonomic relationships among the group has been attempted by phenotypic, genotypic, and phylogenetic analyses. In this study, we determined taxonomic relationships among the SFG rickettsiae by comparative analysis of immunogenic epitopes reactive against a panel of monoclonal antibodies. A total of 98 monoclonal antibodies, which were directed against epitopes on the major immunodominant proteins or on the lipopolysaccharide-like antigens of strains of Rickettsia africae, Rickettsia conorii, Rickettsia massiliae, Rickettsia akari, Rickettsia sibirica, and Rickettsia slovaca, were used in the study. The distribution and expression of the epitopes among 29 SFG rickettsiae and Rickettsia bellii were assessed by determination of reaction titers in a microimmunofluorescence assay. The results were scored as numerical taxonomic data, and cluster analysis was used to construct a dendrogram. The architecture of this dendrogram was consistent with previous taxonomic studies, and the implications of this and other findings are discussed.
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- W Xu
- Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UPRES-A 6020, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Mediterranée, Marseille, France
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Xu W, Raoult D. Distribution of immunogenic epitopes on the two major immunodominant proteins (rOmpA and rOmpB) of Rickettsia conorii among the other rickettsiae of the spotted fever group. CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY IMMUNOLOGY 1997; 4:753-63. [PMID: 9384303 PMCID: PMC170654 DOI: 10.1128/cdli.4.6.753-763.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Forty-four monoclonal antibodies were raised against strain Seven, the type strain of Rickettsia conorii. Of these 44 monoclonal antibodies, 13, 27, and 4 were demonstrated to be directed against the 116-kDa protein (rOmpA), the 124-kDa protein (rOmpB), and lipopolysaccharide-like antigen, respectively. The antiprotein monoclonal antibodies were found to be directed against 29 distinct epitopes, which were located on the two major immunodominant proteins discussed above. Further analysis showed that strain-specific epitopes were located on the rOmpA protein and species- and subgroup-specific epitopes were located on the rOmpB protein. R. conorii Manuel, Indian tick typhus rickettsia, and Kenya tick typhus rickettsia also possessed all 29 epitopes, whereas the other rickettsiae of the spotted fever group (SFG) expressed between 3 and 25 epitopes, with the exception of Rickettsia helvetica, R. akari, and R. australis which did not possess any epitopes. Additional analyses by Western immunoblotting confirmed that the epitopes shared among the SFG rickettsiae were located on the same two high-molecular-mass proteins as on R. conorii. However, although epitopes on the R. conorii rOmpB protein were expressed on the rOmpB proteins of most other SFG rickettsiae, some were found on the rOmpA proteins of R. aeschlimannii, R. rickettsii, and R. rhipicephali. Both proteins possessing the common epitopes were found to have different sizes in the SFG rickettsial species. The different distributions of common epitopes in the SFG rickettsiae were also used to build a taxonomic dendrogram, which demonstrated that all the R. conorii strains formed a relatively independent cluster within the SFG rickettsiae and was generally consistent with previously proposed taxonomies.
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- W Xu
- Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UPRES-A 6020, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Mediterranée, Marseille, France
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