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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2009

A trilocus sequence typing scheme for hospital epidemiology and subspecies differentiation of an important nosocomial pathogen, Enterococcus faecalis.

Shahreen A Chowdhury, Cesar A Arias, Sreedhar R Nallapareddy, Jinnethe Reyes, Rob J L Willems, Barbara E Murray

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Shahreen A ChowdhuryDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, 6431 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Cesar A Arias
Sreedhar R Nallapareddy
Jinnethe Reyes
Rob J L Willems
Barbara E Murray

Funding

U OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON CENTER FOR CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCESUL1RR024148 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI MCPHERSON, DAVID D · 2006 to 2010
$27.9M
ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES FOR E FAECALIS INFECTIONSR37AI047923 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI MURRAY, BARBARA E · 2000 to 2009
$4.0M
Enterococcus faecium virulence: A molecular and therapeutic approachK99AI072961 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI ARIAS, CESAR AUGUSTO · 2008 to 2008
$91k
NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR024148NIAID NIH HHS 1K99-AI72961NIAID NIH HHS K99 AI072961NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI047923NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI 47923
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we present a trilocus sequence typing (TLST) scheme based on intragenic regions of two antigenic genes, ace and salA (encoding a collagen/laminin adhesin and a cell wall-associated antigen, respectively), and a gene associated with antibiotic resistance, lsa (encoding a putative ABC transporter), for subspecies differentiation of Enterococcus faecalis. Each of the alleles was analyzed using 50 E. faecalis isolates representing 42 diverse multilocus sequence types (ST(M); based on seven housekeeping genes) and four groups of clonally linked (by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis [PFGE]) isolates. The allelic profiles and/or concatenated sequences of the three genes agreed with multilocus sequence typing (MLST) results for typing of 49 of the 50 isolates; in addition to the one exception, two isolates were found to have identical TLST types but were single-locus variants (differing by a single nucleotide) by MLST and were therefore also classified as clonally related by MLST. TLST was also comparable to PFGE for establishing short-term epidemiological relationships, typing all isolates classified as clonally related by PFGE with the same type. TLST was then applied to representative isolates (of each PFGE subtype and isolation year) of a collection of 48 hospital isolates and demonstrated the same relationships between isolates of an outbreak strain as those found by MLST and PFGE. In conclusion, the TLST scheme described here was shown to be successful for investigating short-term epidemiology in a hospital setting and may provide an alternative to MLST for discriminating isolates.

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AnimalsATP-Binding Cassette TransportersBacterial ProteinsBacterial Typing TechniquesCarrier ProteinsCross InfectionDisease OutbreaksDNA, BacterialDNA FingerprintingEnterococcus faecalisGenotypeGram-Positive Bacterial InfectionsHumansSequence Analysis, DNAAce protein, EnterococcusATP-Binding Cassette TransportersBacterial ProteinsCarrier ProteinsDNA, BacterialLsa protein, Enterococcus faecalis

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PMID19571023
PMCPMC2738112

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