scholarly journals Chromosomaltet(O)-Harboring Regions in Campylobacter coli Isolates from Turkeys and Swine

2012 ◽  
Vol 78 (23) ◽  
pp. 8488-8491 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Crespo ◽  
J. W. Olson ◽  
E. Altermann ◽  
R. M. Siletzky ◽  
S. Kathariou

ABSTRACTIn turkey-derivedCampylobacter coliisolates of a unique lineage (cluster II), the tetracycline resistance determinanttet(O) was chromosomal and was part of a gene cassette (transposon) interrupting aCampylobacter jejuni-associated putative citrate transporter gene. In contrast, the swine-derivedC. colistrain 6461 harbored a chromosomaltet(O) in a different genomic location.

2013 ◽  
Vol 79 (12) ◽  
pp. 3875-3878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Kittl ◽  
Bożena M. Korczak ◽  
Lilian Niederer ◽  
Andreas Baumgartner ◽  
Sabina Buettner ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTMultilocus sequence typing (MLST) and antibiotic resistance patterns ofCampylobacter jejuniandCampylobacter colifrom retail chicken meat showed high overlap with isolates collected at slaughterhouses, indicating little selection along the production chain. They also showed significant common sequence types with human clinical isolates, revealing chicken meat as a likely source for human infection.


2019 ◽  
Vol 201 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandra Kolehmainen ◽  
Mirko Rossi ◽  
Jacek Stupak ◽  
Jianjun Li ◽  
Michel Gilbert ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTCampylobacter jejuniandCampylobacter coliare the most common causes of bacterial gastroenteritis in the world. Ganglioside mimicry byC. jejunilipooligosaccharide (LOS) is the triggering factor of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), an acute polyneuropathy. Sialyltransferases from glycosyltransferase family 42 (GT-42) are essential for the expression of ganglioside mimics inC. jejuni. Recently, two novel GT-42 genes,cstIVandcstV, have been identified inC. coli. Despite being present in ∼11% of currently availableC. coligenomes, the biological role ofcstIVandcstVis unknown. In the present investigation, mutation studies with two strains expressing eithercstIVorcstVwere performed and mass spectrometry was used to investigate differences in the chemical composition of LOS. Attempts were made to identify donor and acceptor molecules usingin vitroactivity tests with recombinant GT-42 enzymes. Here we show that CstIV and CstV are involved inC. coliLOS biosynthesis. In particular,cstVis associated with LOS sialylation, whilecstIVis linked to the addition of a diacetylated nonulosonic acid residue.IMPORTANCEDespite the fact thatCampylobacter colia major foodborne pathogen, its glycobiology has been largely neglected. The genetic makeup of theC. colilipooligosaccharide biosynthesis locus was largely unknown until recently.C. coliharbors a large set of genes associated with lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis, including genes for several putative glycosyltransferases involved in the synthesis of sialylated lipooligosaccharide inCampylobacter jejuni. In the present study,C. coliwas found to express lipooligosaccharide structures containing sialic acid and other nonulosonate acids. These findings have a strong impact on our understanding ofC. coliecology, host-pathogen interaction, and pathogenesis.


2011 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 839-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeline Tissier ◽  
Martine Denis ◽  
Philippe Hartemann ◽  
Benoît Gassilloud

ABSTRACTInvestigations ofCampylobacter jejuniandCampylobacter coliin samples of drinking water suspected of being at the origin of an outbreak very often lead to negative results. One of the reasons for this failure is the small volume of water typically used for detecting these pathogens (10 to 1,000 ml). The efficiencies of three microfilters and different elution procedures were determined using real-time quantitative PCR to propose a procedure allowing detection ofCampylobacterin 20 liters of drinking water or low-turbidity water samples. The results showed that more than 80% of the bacteria inoculated in 1 liter of drinking water were retained on each microfilter. An elution with a solution containing 3% beef extract, 0.05 M glycine at pH 9, combined with direct extraction of the bacterial genomes retained on the cellulose ester microfilter, allowed recovery of 87.3% (±22% [standard deviation]) ofCampylobacterper 1 liter of tap water. Recoveries obtained from 20-liter volumes of tap water spiked with aC. colistrain were 69.5% (±10.3%) and 78.5% (±15.1%) for 91 CFU and 36 CFU, respectively. Finally, tests performed on eight samples of 20 liters of groundwater collected from an alluvial well used for the production of drinking water revealed the presence ofC. jejuniandC. coligenomes, whereas no bacteria were detected with the normative culture method in volumes ranging from 10 to 1,000 ml. In the absence of available epidemiological data and information on bacterial viability, these last results indicate only that the water resource is not protected from contamination byCampylobacter.


2016 ◽  
Vol 82 (8) ◽  
pp. 2347-2355 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. Vidal ◽  
F. M. Colles ◽  
J. D. Rodgers ◽  
N. D. McCarthy ◽  
R. H. Davies ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTThe genetic diversity ofCampylobacter jejuniandCampylobacter coliisolates from commercial broiler farms was examined by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), with an assessment of the impact of the sample type and laboratory method on the genotypes ofCampylobacterisolated. A total of 645C. jejuniand 106C. coliisolates were obtained from 32 flocks and 17 farms, with 47 sequence types (STs) identified. TheCampylobacter jejuniisolates obtained by different sampling approaches and laboratory methods were very similar, with the same STs identified at similar frequencies, and had no major effect on the genetic profile ofCampylobacterpopulation in broiler flocks at the farm level. ForC. coli, the results were more equivocal. While some STs were widely distributed within and among farms and flocks, analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) revealed a high degree of genetic diversity among farms forC. jejuni, where farm effects accounted for 70.5% of variance, and among flocks from the same farm (9.9% of variance forC. jejuniand 64.1% forC. coli). These results show the complexity of the population structure ofCampylobacterin broiler production and that commercial broiler farms provide an ecological niche for a wide diversity of genotypes. The genetic diversity ofC. jejuniisolates among broiler farms should be taken into account when designing studies to understandCampylobacterpopulations in broiler production and the impact of interventions. We provide evidence that supports synthesis of studies onC. jejunipopulations even when laboratory and sampling methods are not identical.


2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (24) ◽  
pp. 7604-7610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bai Wei ◽  
Se-Yeoun Cha ◽  
Min Kang ◽  
Jae-Hee Roh ◽  
Hye-Suk Seo ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTCampylobacteris a food-borne zoonotic pathogen that causes human gastroenteritis worldwide.Campylobacterbacteria are commensal in the intestines of many food production animals, including ducks and chickens. The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence ofCampylobacterspecies in domestic ducks, and the agar dilution method was used to determine resistance of the isolates to eight antibiotics. In addition, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was performed to determine the sequence types (STs) of selectedCampylobacterisolates. Between May and September 2012, 58 duck farms were analyzed, and 56 (96.6%) were positive forCampylobacter. Among the isolates, 82.1% wereCampylobacter jejuni, 16.1% wereC. coli, and one was unidentified by PCR. Of the 46C. jejuniisolates, 87.0%, 10.9%, and 21.7% were resistant to ciprofloxacin, erythromycin, and azithromycin, respectively. Among theC. coliisolates, all 9 strains were resistant to ampicillin, and 77.8% and 33.3% were resistant to ciprofloxacin and azithromycin, respectively. The majority of theCampylobacterisolates were classified as multidrug resistant. Twenty-eight STs were identified, including 20 STs forC. jejuniand 8 STs forC. coli. The most common clonal complexes inC. jejuniwere the ST-21 complex and the ST-45 complex, while the ST-828 complex predominated inC. coli. The majority of isolates were of STs noted in ducks and humans from earlier studies, along with seven STs previously associated only with human disease. These STs overlapped between duck and human isolates, indicating thatCampylobacterisolates from ducks should be considered potential sources of human infection.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (49) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daya Marasini ◽  
Mohamed K. Fakhr

ABSTRACT Complete genome sequences of Campylobacter coli strains WA333, YF2105, BG2108, MG1116, and BP3183 and Campylobacter jejuni strain IF1100 isolated from retail chicken liver showed the presence of 1,841,551-, 1,687,232-, 1,695,638-, 1,665,146-, 1,695,360-, and 1,744,171-bp circular chromosomes, respectively. These isolates also contained plasmids ranging in size from 5,209 to 55,122 bp.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
José F. Cobo-Díaz ◽  
Paloma González del Río ◽  
Avelino Álvarez-Ordóñez

Campylobacter spp. are the most frequent agent of human gastroenteritis worldwide, and the spread of multidrug-resistant strains makes the clinical treatment difficult. The current study presents the resistome analysis of 39,798 Campylobacter jejuni and 11,920 Campylobacter coli genomes available in public repositories. Determinants of resistance to β-lactams (Be) and tetracyclines (Te) were the most frequent for both species, with resistance to quinolones (Qu) as the third most important on C. jejuni and to aminoglycosides (Am) on C. coli. Moreover, resistance to Te, Qu, and Am was frequently found in co-occurrence with resistance to other antibiotic families. Geographical differences on clonal complexes distribution were found for C. jejuni and on resistome genotypes for both C. jejuni and C. coli species. Attending to the resistome patterns by isolation source, three main clusters of genomes were found on C. jejuni genomes at antimicrobial resistance gene level. The first cluster was formed by genomes from human, food production animals (e.g., sheep, cow, and chicken), and food (e.g., dairy products) isolates. The higher incidence of tet(O), associated with tetracycline resistance, and the gyrA (T86I) single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), associated with quinolone resistance, among genomes from this cluster could be due to the intense use of these antibiotics in veterinary and human clinical settings. Similarly, a high incidence of tet(O) genes of C. coli genomes from pig, cow, and turkey was found. Moreover, the cluster based on resistome patterns formed by C. jejuni and C. coli genomes of human, turkey, and chicken origin is in agreement with previous observations reporting chicken or poultry-related environments as the main source of human campylobacteriosis infections. Most clonal complexes (CCs) associated with chicken host specialization (e.g., ST-354, ST-573, ST-464, and ST-446) were the CCs with the highest prevalence of determinants of resistance to Be, Qu, and Te. Finally, a clear trend toward an increase in the occurrence of Te and Qu resistance determinants on C. jejuni, linked to the spread of the co-occurrence of the blaOXA–61 and tet(O)-tet(O/W/O) genes and the gyrA (T86I) SNP, was found from 2001 to date in Europe.


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