Population genetic analysis of Serpulina pilosicoli and its molecular epidemiology in villages in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 659-668

  Trott, Darren J ^a   Mikosza, Andrew S J ^a   Combs, Barry G ^b   Oxberry, Sophy L ^a   Hampson, David J ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE); Population genetics; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE); Serpulina pilosicoli; Zoonotic transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRACHYSPIRA; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPIROCHETE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRACHYSPIRA; BRACHYSPIRA PILOSICOLI; CANIS FAMILIARIS; PROKARYOTA; SERPULINA PILOSICOLI; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0031873805     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-48-3-659     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Atyeo, R. F., Oxberry, S. L. & Hampson, D. J. (1996). Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for sub-specific differentiation of Serpulina pilosicoli (formerly 'Anguillina coli'). FEMS Microbiol Lett 141, 77-81.
2. Barrett, S. P. (1990). Intestinal spirochaetes in a Gulf Arab population. Epidemiol Infect 104, 261-266.
3. 35S-methionine labelling and Coomassie blue staining. J Med Microbiol 45, 6-9.
4. Burr, E. J. (1968). Division sorting with mixed character types. I. Standardisation of character values. Aust Comp J 1, 97-99.
5. Burr, E. J. (1970). Division sorting with mixed character types II. Fusion strategies. Aust Comp J 2, 98-103.
6. Cooper, C., Cotton, C. W. K., Hudson, M. J., Kirkham, N. & Wilmott, F. E. W. (1986). Rectal spirochaetosis in homosexual men: characterisation of the organism and pathophysiology. Genitourin Med 62, 47-52.
7. Duhamel, G. E., Muniappa, N., Mathieson, M. R., Johnson, J. L., Toth, J., Elder, R. O. & Doster, A. R. (1995). Certain canine weakly beta-hemolytic spirochetes are phenotypically and genotypically related to spirochetes associated with human and porcine intestinal spirochetosis. J Clin Microbiol 33, 2212-2215.
8. Dwars, R. M., Davelaar, F. G. & Smit, H. F. (1992). Infection of broiler chicks (Gallus domesticus) with human intestinal spirochaetes. Avian Pathol 21, 559-568.
9. Fournié-Amazouz, E., Baranton, G., Carlier, J. P. & 7 other authors (1995). A series of isolations of intestinal spirochaetes from the blood of human patients. J Hosp Infect 30, 160-161.
10. Fusté, M. C., Pineda, M. A., Palomar, J., Vinas, M. & Lorén, J. G. (1996). Clonality of multidrug-resistant nontypable strains of Haemophilus influenzae. J Clin Microbiol 34, 2760-2765.
11. Go, M. F., Kapur, V., Graham, D. Y. & Musser, J. M. (1996). Population genetic analysis of Helicobacter pylori by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis: extensive allelic diversity and recombinational population structure. J Bacteriol 178, 3934-3938.
12. Hendrik-Nielsen, R. S., Orholm, M., Pedersen, J. O., Hovind-Hougen, K., Teglbjaerg, P. S. & Thaysen, E. H. (1983). Colorectal spirochetosis: clinical significance of the infestation. Gastroenterology 85, 623-667.
13. Hovind-Hougen, K., Birch-Andersen, A., Henrik-Nielsen, R., Orholm, M., J. O. P., Teglbjaerg, P. S. & Thaysen, E. H. (1982). Intestinal spirochaetosis: morphological characterisation and cultivation of the spirochaete Brachyspira aalborgi gen. nov. sp. nov. J Clin Microbiol 16, 1127-1136.
14. Humphrey, S. B., Stanton, T. B. & Jensen, N. S. (1995). Mitomycin C induction of bacteriophages from Serpulina hyodysenteriae and Serpulina innocens. FEMS Microbiol Lett 134, 97-101.
15. Humphrey, S. B., Stanton, T. B., Jensen, N. S. & Zuerner, R. L. (1997). Purification and characterization of VSH-1, a generalized transducing bacteriophage of Serpulina hyodysenteriae. J Bacteriol 179, 323-329.
16. Jenkinson, S. R. & Wingar, C. R. (1981). Selective medium for the isolation of Treponema hyodysenteriae. Vet Rec 109, 384-385.
17. Koopman, M. B. H., Käsbohrer, A., Beckmann, G., van der Zeijst, B. A. M. & Kusters, J. G. (1993). Genetic similarity of intestinal spirochetes from humans and various animal species. J Clin Microbiol 31, 711-716.
18. Kostman, J. R., Patel, M., Catalano, E., Camacho, J., Hoffpauir, J. & DiNubile, M. J. (1995). Invasive colitis and hepatitis due to previously uncharacterized spirochetes in patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection. Clin Infect Dis 21, 1159-1165.
19. Kunkle, R. A., Harris, D. L. & Kinyon, J. M. (1986). Autoclaved liquid medium for propagation of Treponema hyodysenteriae. J Clin Microbiol 24, 669-671.
20. Law, C. L. H., Grierson, J. M. & Stevens, S. M. B. (1994). Rectal spirochaetosis in homosexual men: the association with sexual practices, HIV infection and enteric flora. Genitourin Med 70, 26-29.
21. Lee, J. I. & Hampson, D. J. (1992). Intestinal spirochaetes colonising Aborigines from communities in the remote north of Western Australia. Epidemiol Infect 109, 133-141.
22. Lee, J. I. & Hampson, D. J. (1994). Genetic characterisation of intestinal spirochaetes and their association with disease. J Med Microbiol 40, 365-371.
23. Lee, J. I., Hampson, D. J., Lymbery, A. J. & Harders, S. J. (1993a). The porcine intestinal spirochaetes: identification of new genetic groups. Vet Microbiol 34, 273-285.
24. Lee, J. I., McLaren, A. J., Lymbery, A. J. & Hampson, D. J. (1993b). Human intestinal spirochetes are distinct from Serpulina hyodysenteriae. J Clin Microbiol 31, 16-21.
25. Lymbery, A. J., Hampson, D. J., Hopkins, R. M., Combs, B. & Mhoma, J. R. L. (1990). Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis for identification and typing of Treponema hyodysenteriae and related spirochaetes. Vet Microbiol 22, 89-99.
26. McLaren, A. J., Trott, D. J., Swayne, D. E., Oxberry, S. L. & Hampson, D. J. (1997). Genetic and phenotypic characterization of intestinal spirochetes colonizing chickens and allocation of known pathogenic isolates to three distinct genetic groups. J Clin Microbiol 35, 412-417.
27. McMillan, A. & Lee, F. D. (1981). Sigmoidoscopic and microscopic appearance of the rectal mucosa in homosexual men. Gut 22, 1035-1041.
28. Maynard Smith, J., Smith, N. H., O'Rourke, M. & Spratt, B. G. (1993). How clonal are bacteria? Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 90, 4384-4388.
29. Muniappa, N., Duhamel, G. E., Mathiesen, M. R. & Bargar, T. W. (1996). Light microscopic and ultrastructural changes in the ceca of chicks inoculated with human and canine Serpulina pilosicoli. Vet Pathol 33, 542-550.
30. Nei, M. (1977). F-statistics and analysis of gene diversity in subdivided populations. Ann Hum Genet 41, 225-233.
31. O'Rourke, M. & Spratt, B. G. (1994). Further evidence for non-clonal population structure of Neisseria gonorrhoea: extensive genetic diversity within isolates of the same electrophoretic type. Microbiology 140, 1285-1290.
32. O'Rourke, M. & Stevens, E. (1993). Genetic structure of Neisseria gonorrhoeae populations: a non-clonal pathogen. J Gen Microbiol 139, 2603-2611.
33. Park, N. Y., Chung, C. Y., McLaren, A. J., Atyeo, A. J. & Hampson, D. J. (1995). Polymerase chain reaction for identification of human and porcine spirochaetes recovered from cases of intestinal spirochaetosis. FEMS Microbiol Lett 125, 225-230.
34. Rayment, S. J., Barrett, S. P. & Livesley, M. A. (1997). Sub-specific differentiation of intestinal spirochaete isolates by macro-restriction fragment profiling. Microbiology 143, 2923-2929.
35. Surawicz, C. M., Roberts, P. L., Rompalo, A., Quinn, T. C., Holmes, K. K. & Stamm, W. E. (1987). Intestinal spirochetosis in homosexual men. Am J Med 82, 587-592.
36. Tompkins, D. S., Waugh, M. A. & Cooke, E. M. (1981). Isolation of intestinal spirochaetes from homosexuals. J Clin Pathol 34, 1385-1387.
37. Tompkins, D. S., Foulkes, S. J., Godwin, P. G. R. & West, A. P. (1986). Isolation and characterisation of intestinal spirochaetes. J Clin Pathol 39, 535-541.
38. Trivett-Moore, N. L., Gilbert, G. L., Law, C. L. H., Trott, D. J. & Hampson, D. J. (1998). Isolation of Serpulina pilosicoli from rectal biopsy specimens showing evidence of intestinal spirochetosis. J Clin Microbiol 36, 261-265.
39. Trott, D. J., McLaren, A. J. & Hampson, D. J. (1995). Pathogenicity of human and porcine intestinal spirochaetes in day-old specific pathogen free chicks: an animal model of intestinal spirochetosis. Infect Immun 63, 3705-3710.
40. Trott, D. J., Stanton, T. B., Jensen, N. S., Duhamel, G. E., Johnson, J. L. & Hampson, D. J. (1996a). Serpulina pilosicoli sp. nov.: the agent of porcine intestinal spirochetosis. Int J Syst Bacteriol 46, 206-215.
41. Trott, D. J., Huxtable, C. R. & Hampson, D. J. (1996b). Infection of newly weaned pigs with human and porcine strains of Serpulina pilosicoli. Infect Immun 64, 4648-4654.
42. Trott, D. J., Atyeo, R. F., Lee, J. I., Swayne, D. A., Stoutenburg, J. W. & Hampson, D. J. (1996c). Genetic relatedness amongst intestinal spirochaetes isolated from rats and birds. Lett Appl Microbiol 23, 431-436.
43. Trott, D. J., Stanton, T. A., Jensen, N. S. & Hampson, D. J. (1996d). Phenotypic characteristics of Serpulina pilosicoli the agent of intestinal spirochaetosis. FEMS Microbiol Lett 142, 209-214.
44. Trott, D. J., Jensen, N. S., Saint Girons, I., Oxberry, S. L., Stanton, T. B., Lindquist, D. & Hampson, D. J. (1997a). Identification and characterization of Serpulina pilosicoli isolates recovered from the blood of critically ill patients. J Clin Microbiol 35, 482-485.
45. Trott, D. J., Combs, B. G., Mikosza, A. S. J. & 7 other authors (1997b). The prevalence of Serpulina pilosicoli in humans and domestic animals in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Epidemiol Infect 119, 369-379.
46. Trott, D. J., Oxberry, S. L. & Hampson, D. J. (1997c). Evidence for Serpulina hyodysenteriae being recombinant, with an epidemic population structure. Microbiology 143, 3357-3365.