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ArticleScientific reports2020

Genomic analysis of European bovine Staphylococcus aureus from clinical versus subclinical mastitis.

Jurriaan Hoekstra, Aldert L Zomer, Victor P M G Rutten, Lindert Benedictus, Arjan Stegeman, Mirlin P Spaninks, Torben W Bennedsgaard, Andrew Biggs, Sarne De Vliegher, Demetrio Herrera Mateo and 13 more

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3 · Its place in the literature

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43 citing papers in PubMed, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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23 authors at 14 institutions in 9 countries.

Jurriaan HoekstraDepartment Population Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. j.hoekstra1@uu.nl.
Aldert L ZomerDepartment of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Victor P M G RuttenDepartment of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Lindert BenedictusDepartment Population Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Arjan StegemanDepartment Population Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Mirlin P SpaninksDepartment Population Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Torben W BennedsgaardDepartment of Animal Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Andrew BiggsThe Vale Veterinary Group, Tiverton, UK.
Sarne De VliegherDepartment of Obstetrics, Reproduction and Herd Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.
Demetrio Herrera MateoQ-Llet SLP, Seva, Barcelona, Spain.
Reglindis Huber-SchlenstedtBavarian Animal Health Service, Poing, Germany.
Jørgen KatholmDNA Diagnostic, Risskov, Denmark.
Péter KovácsUniversity of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary.
Volker KrömkerDepartment of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Guillaume LequeuxLABOCEA, Fougères, France.
Paolo MoroniDepartment of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
Luís PinhoDepartment of Veterinary Clinics, Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Sebastian SmulskiDepartment of Internal Diseases and Diagnosis, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, Poznan University of Life Science, Poznan, Poland.
Karlien SupréMCC-Vlaanderen, Lier, Belgium.
Jantijn M SwinkelsMSD Animal Health, Boxmeer, The Netherlands.
Mark A HolmesDepartment of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Theo J G M LamDepartment Population Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Gerrit KoopDepartment Population Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Utrecht University · NLAarhus University · DKCentre Hospitalier de Fougères · FRDNA Diagnostic (Denmark) · DKGhent University · BEMSD (Netherlands) · NLRode Kruis-Vlaanderen · BEUniversidade do Porto · PTUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Copenhagen · DKUniversity of Life Sciences in Poznań · PLUniversity of Milan · ITUniversity of Veterinary Medicine · HUVale (United Kingdom) · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/N002660/1Medical Research Council MR/P007201/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intramammary infections (IMI) with Staphylococcus aureus are a common cause of bovine mastitis and can result in both clinical (CM) or subclinical mastitis (SCM). Although bacterial isolates of S. aureus differ in their virulence potential it is largely unclear which bacterial virulence factors are responsible for increased clinical severity. We performed a genome wide association study and used a generalized linear mixed model to investigate the correlation between gene carriage, lineage and clinical outcome of IMI in a collection of S. aureus isolates from cattle with CM (n = 125) and SCM (n = 151) from 11 European countries. An additional aim was to describe the genetic variation of bovine S. aureus in Europa. The dominant lineages in our collection were clonal complex (CC) 151 (81/276, 29.3%), CC97 (54/276, 19.6%), CC479 (32/276, 11.6%) and CC398 (19/276, 6.9%). Virulence and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) gene carriage was highly associated with CC. Among a selection of nine virulence and AMR genes, CC151, CC479 and CC133 carried more virulence genes than other CCs, and CC398 was associated with AMR gene carriage. Whereas CC151, CC97 were widespread in Europe, CC479, CC398 and CC8 were only found in specific countries. Compared to CC151, CC479 was associated with CM rather than SCM (OR 3.62; 95% CI 1.38-9.50) and the other CCs were not. Multiple genes were associated with CM, but due to the clustering within CC of carriage of these genes, it was not possible to differentiate between the effect of gene carriage and CC on clinical outcome of IMI. Nevertheless, this study demonstrates that characterization of S. aureus CC and virulence genes helps to predict the likelihood of the occurrence of CM following S. aureus IMI and highlights the potential benefit of diagnostics tools to identify S. aureus CC during bovine mastitis.

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AnimalsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial Typing TechniquesCattleClonal EvolutionDrug Resistance, BacterialEuropeFemaleGenes, BacterialGenetic VariationGenome-Wide Association StudyGenomicsGenotypeMastitis, BovineMultilocus Sequence TypingPhylogenyAnti-Bacterial AgentsVirulence Factors

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