Infinite serovar and ribotype heterogeneity among oral Fusobacterium nucleatum strains?

Anaerobe

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 79-92

  Thurnheer, Thomas ^a   Guggenheim, Bernhard ^a   Gruica, Boris ^a   Gmür, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antigenic diversity; Dental plaque; Fusobacterium nucleatum; Monoclonal antibodies; Ribotyping

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GINGIVITIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; PERIODONTITIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOTYPING; SEROLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 0032843681     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anae.1999.0188     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Bolstad A. I., Jensen H. B., Bakken V. Taxonomy, biology, and periodontal aspects of Fusobacterium nucleatum. Clin Microbiol Rev. 9:1996;55-71.
2. Bennett K. W., Eley A. Fusobacteria: new taxonomy and related diseases. J Med Microbiol. 39:1993;246-254.
3. Brook I., Frazier E. H., Gher M. J. Microbiology of periapical abscesses and associated maxillary sinusitis. J Periodontol. 67:1996;608-610.
4. Summanen P. H., Talan D. A., Strong C., McTeague M., Bennion R., Thompson J. J., Vaisanen M. L., Moran G., Winer M., Finegold S. M. Bacteriology of skin and soft-tissue infections: comparison of infections in intravenous drug users and individuals with no history of intravenous drug use. Clin Infect Dis. 20:1995;S279-S282.
5. Hill G. B. Preterm birth: associations with genital and possibly oral microflora. Ann Periodontol. 3:1998;222-232.
6. Morris M. L., Andrews R. H., Rogers A. H. Investigations of the taxonomy and systematics of Fusobacterium nucleatum using allozyme electrophoresis. Int J Syst Bacteriol. 47:1997;103-110.
7. Ebersole J. L., Feuille F., Kesavalu L., Holt S. C. Host modulation of tissue destruction caused by periodontopathogens: effects on a mixed microbial infection composed ofPorphyromonas gingivalis and Fusobacterium nucleatum. Microb Pathog. 23:1997;23-32.
8. Vincent M. H. Recherches bactériologiques sur l'angine a bacilles fusiformes. Ann Inst Pasteur. 8:1899;608-620.
9. Moore W. E.C., Holdeman L. V., Cato E. P., Smibert R. M., Burmeister J. A., Palcanis K. G., Ranney R. R. Comparative bacteriology of juvenile periodontitis. Infect Immun. 48:1985;507-519.
10. Moore W. E.C., Holdeman L. V., Cato E. P., Smibert R. M., Burmeister J. A., Ranney R. R. Bacteriology of moderate (chronic) periodontitis in mature adult humans. Infect Immun. 42:1983;510-515.
11. Dzink J. L., Socransky S. S., Haffajee A. D. The predominant cultivable microbiota of active and inactive lesions of destructive periodontal diseases. J Clin Periodontol. 15:1988;316-323.
12. Crippin J. S., Wang K. K. An unrecognized etiology for pyogenic hepatic abscesses in normal hosts: dental disease. Am J Gastroenterol. 12:1992;1740-1743.
13. González-Gay M. A., Sánchez-Andrade A., Cereijo M. J., Pulpeiro J. R., Armesto V. Pyomyositis and septic arthritis from Fusobacterium nucleatum in a nonimmunocompromized adult. J Rheumatol. 20:1993;518-520.
14. Dzink J. L., Sheenan M. T., Socransky S. S. Proposal of three subspecies of Fusobacterium nucleatum Knorr 1922: Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp.nucleatum subsp. nov., comb. nov.;Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp. polymorphum subsp. nov., nom. rev., comb. nov.; and Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp. vincentii subsp. nov., nom. rev., comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol. 40:1990;74-78.
15. Gharbia S. E., Shah H. N. Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp. fusiforme subsp. nov. and Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp.animalis subsp. nov. as additional subspecies within Fusobacterium nucleatum. Int J Syst Bacteriol. 42:1992;296-298.
16. George K. S., Reynolds M. A., Falkler W. A.J. Arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction fingerprinting and clonal analysis of oral Fusobacterium nucleatum isolates. Oral Microbiol Immunol. 12:1997;219-226.
17. Morris M. L., Andrews R. H., Rogers A. H. The use of allozyme electrophoresis to assess genetic heterogeneity among previously subspeciated isolates ofFusobacterium nucleatum. Oral Microbiol Immunol. 11:1996;15-21.
18. Potts T. V., Holdeman L. V., Slots J. Relationships among the oral Fusobacteria assessed by DNA-DNA hybridization. J Dent Res. 62:1983;702-705.
19. Gmür R., Thurnheer T. Monoclonal antibodies for the rapid identification in clinical samples of Peptostreptococcus micros andActinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans serotypes a, d, and e. Med Microbiol Lett. 5:1996;335-349.
20. Schüpbach P., Osterwalder V., Guggenheim B. Human root caries: microbiota in plaque covering sound, carious and arrested carious root surfaces. Caries Res. 29:1995;382-395.
21. Schüpbach P., Osterwalder V., Guggenheim B. Human root caries: microbiota of a limited number of root caries lesions. Caries Res. 30:1996;52-64.
22. Werner-Felmayer G., Guggenheim B., Gmür R. Production and characterization of monoclonal antibodies against Bacteroides forsythus and Wolinella recta. J Dent Res. 67:1988;548-553.
23. Brazier J. S., Citron D. M., Goldstein E. J.C. A selective medium for Fusobacterium spp. J Appl Bacteriol. 71:1991;343-346.
24. Sambrook J., Fritsch E. F., Maniatis T. Molecular cloning. A laboratory manual. 1989;2nd Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor.
25. Bennett K. W., Duerden B. I. Identification of fusobacteria in a routine diagnostic laboratory. J Appl Bacteriol. 59:1985;171-181.
26. Gmür R., Guggenheim B. Antigenic heterogeneity of Bacteroides intermedius as recognized by monoclonal antibodies. Infect Immun. 42:1983;459-470.
27. Smibert R. M., Krieg N. R. Phenotypic characterization. Gerhardt P., Murray R. G.E., Wood W. A., Krieg N. R. Methods for general and molecular bacteriology. 1994;607-654 American Society of Microbiology, Washington.
28. Slots J., Potts T. V., Mashimo P. A. Fusobacterium periodonticum , a new species from the human oral cavity. J Dent Res. 62:1983;960-963.
29. Gmür R., Guggenheim B. Interdental supragingival plaque - a natural habitat of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans , Bacteroides forsythus , Campylobacter rectus and Prevotella nigrescens. J Dent Res. 73:1994;1421-1428.
30. Thurnheer T., Guggenheim B., Gmür R. Characterization of monoclonal antibodies for rapid identification of Actinomyces naeslundii in clinical samples. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 150:1997;255-262.
31. Laemmli U. K. Cleavage of structural proteins during assembly of the head of bacteriophage T4. Nature. 227:1970;680-685.
32. Gmür R., Werner-Felmayer G., Guggenheim B. Production and characterization of monoclonal antibodies specific for Bacteroides gingivalis. Oral Microbiol Immunol. 3:1988;181-186.
33. Sasser M. Identification of bacteria through fatty acid analysis. Klement Z., Rudolph K., Sands D. C. Methods in Phytobacteriology. 1990;199-204 Akadémiai Kiadò Budapest.
34. Jamieson G. R. GLC identification techniques for long-chain unsaturated fatty acids. J Chromat Sci. 13:1975;491-497.
35. Ausubel F. M., Brent R., Kingston R. E., Moore D. D., Seidman J. G., Smith J. A., Struhl K. Short protocols in molecular biology. 1992;John Wiley & Sons, New York.
36. Grimont F., Grimont P. A.D. Ribosomal ribonucleic acid gene restriction patterns as potential taxonomic tools. Ann Inst Pasteur. 137:1986;Microbiol-175.
37. Martinetti G., Altwegg M. rRNA gene restriction patterns and plasmid analysis as a tool for typing Salmonella enteritidis. Res Microbiol. 141:1990;1151-1162.
38. Altwegg M., Mayer L. W. Bacterial molecular epidemiology based on a non-radioactive probe complementary to ribosomal RNA. Res Microbiol. 140:1989;325-333.
39. Brosius J., Ullrich A., Raker M. A., Gray A., Dull T. J., Gutell R. R., Noller H. F. Construction and fine mapping of recombinant plasmids containing the rrn B ribosomal RNA operon of E. coli. Plasmid. 6:1981;112-118.
40. Martinetti Lucchini G., Altwegg M. rRNA gene restriction patterns as taxonomic tools for the genus Aeromonas. Int J Syst Bacteriol. 42:1992;384-389.
41. van de Peer Y., De Wachter R. TREECON for Windows: a software package for the construction and drawing of evolutionary trees for the Microsoft Windows environment. Comput Applic Biosci. 10:1994;569-570.
42. Kristoffersen T., Maeland J. A., Hofstad T. Serologic properties of lipopolysaccharide endotoxins from oral fusobacteria. Scand J Dent Res. 79:1971;105-112.
43. Hofstad T., Skaug N., Bjørnland T. O-antigenic cross-reactivity in Fusobacterium nucleatum. Acta Path Microbiol Scand Sect B. 87:1979;371-374.
44. Adnegard B., Hofstad T. O-Antigenic cross-reactivity in Fusobacterium nucleatum : chemotype V lipopolysaccharides. Acta Path Microbiol Immunol Scand Sect B. 91:1983;93-95.
45. Gharbia S. E., Shah H. N., Lawson P. A., Haapasalo M. The distribution and frequency of Fusobacterium nucleatum subspecies in the human oral cavity. Oral Microbiol Immunol. 5:1990;324-327.
46. Tunér K., Baron E. J., Summannen P., Finegold S. M. Cellular fatty acids in Fusobacterium species as a tool for identification. J Clin Microbiol. 30:1992;3225-3229.
47. Jantzen E., Hofstad T. Fatty acids of Fusobacterium species: taxonomic implications. J Gen Microbiol. 123:1981;163-171.
48. Calhoon D. A., Mayberry W. R., Slots J. Cellular fatty acid and soluble protein profiles of oral fusobacteria. J Dent Res. 62:1983;1181-1185.