Identification of the anginosus group within the genus Streptococcus using polymerase chain reaction

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-89

  Takao, Ayuko ^a   Nagamune, Hideaki ^b   Maeda, Nobuko ^a  

^a TSURUMI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Polymerase chain reaction; Species identification; The anginosus streptococci

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; HYALURONIC ACID; LYASE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2B; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; SUBSPECIES;

AMINOACYLTRANSFERASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYTOTOXINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MURAMOYLPENTAPEPTIDE CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEINS; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS SUBSP. CONSTELLATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS;

EID: 1642265732     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.01.042     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Brook I., Frazier E.H. Microaerophilic streptococci as a significant pathogen: a twelve-year review. J. Med. 25:1994;129-144.
2. Gossling J. Occurrence and pathogenicity of the Streptococcus milleri group. Rev. Infect. Dis. 10:1988;257-285.
3. Lewis M.A.O., MacFarlane T.W. A microbiological and clinical review of the acute dentoalveolar abscess. Br. J. Oral Maxillofac. Surg. 28:1990;359-366.
4. Ruoff K.L. Streptococcus anginosus ("Streptococcus milleri"): the unrecognized pathogen. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 1:1988;102-108.
5. Whiley R.A., Beighton D., Winstanley T.G., Fraser H.Y., Hardie J.M. Streptococcus intermedius, Streptococcus constellatus, and Streptococcus anginosus (the Streptococcus milleri group) association with different body sites and clinical infections. J. Clin. Microbiol. 30:1992;243-244.
6. Whiley R.A., Hall L.M.C., Hardie J.M., Beighton D. A study of small-colony, β-haemolytic, Lancefield group C streptococci within the anginosus group: description of Streptococcus constellatus subsp. pharyngis subsp. nov., associated with the human throat and pharyngitis. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 49:1999;1443-1449.
7. Whiley R.A., Fraser H., Hardie J.M., Beighton D. Phenotypic differentiation of Streptococcus intermedius, Streptococcus constellatus, and Streptococcus anginosus strains within the Streptococcus milleri group. J. Clin. Microbiol. 28:1990;1497-1501.
8. Takao A. Cloning and expression of hyaluronate lyase genes of Streptococcus intermedius and Streptococcus constellatus subsp. constellatus. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 219:2003;143-150.
9. Reissig J.L., Strominger J.L., Leloir L.F. A modified colorimetric method for the estimation of N-acetylamino sugars. J. Biol. Chem. 217:1955;959-966.
10. Smith R.F., Willet N.P. Rapid plate method for screening hyaluronidase and chondroitin sulfatase-producing microorganisms. Appl. Microbiol. 16:1968;1434-1436.
11. Dowson C.G., Coffey T.J., Kell C., Whiley R.A. Evolution of penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae; the role of Streptococcus mitis in the formation of a low affinity PBP2B in S. pneumoniae. Mol. Microbiol. 9:1993;635-643.
12. Ajdic D., Mcshan W.M., McLaughlin R.E., Savic G., Chang J., Carson M.B., Primeaux C., Tian R., Kenton S., Jia H., Lin S., Qian Y., Li S., Zhu H., Najar F., Lai H., White J., Roe B.A., Ferretti J.J. Genome sequence of Streptococcus mutans UA159, a cariogenic dental pathogen. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 99:2002;14434-14439.
13. Glaser, Rusniok P.C., Chevalier F., Buchrieser C., Frangeul L., Zouine M., Couve E., Lalioui L., Msadek T., Poyart C. Genome sequence of Streptococcus agalactiae, a pathogen causing invasive neonatal disease. Mol. Microbiol. 45:2002;1499-1513.
14. Clarridge III J.E., Osting C., Jalali M., Osborne J., Waddington M. Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of "Streptococcus milleri" group isolates from a Veterans Administration hospital population. J. Clin. Microbiol. 37:1999;3681-3687.
15. Jacobs J.A., Schot C.S., Schouls L.M. Haemolytic activity of the Streptococcus milleri group and relationship between haemolysis restricted to human red blood cells and pathogenicity in S. intermedius. J. Med. Microbiol. 49:2000;55-62.
16. Sultana F., Kawamura Y., Hou X.G., Shu S.E., Ezaki E. Determination of 23S rRNA sequences from members of the genus Streptococcus and characterization of genetically distinct organisms previously identified as members of the Streptococcus anginosus group. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 158:1998;223-230.
17. Goto T., Nagamune H., Miyazaki A., Kawamura Y., Ohnishi O., Hattori K., Ohkura K., Miyamoto K., Akimoto S., Ezaki T., Hirota K., Miyake Y., Maeda T., Kourai H. Rapid identification of Streptococcus intermedius by PCR with the ily gene as a species marker gene. J. Med. Microbiol. 51:2002;178-186.
18. Lane D.J. 16S/23S rRNA sequencing. Stackebrandt E., Goodfellow M. Nucleic Acid Techniques in Bacterial Systematics. 1991;115-175 Wiley, Chichester.
19. Sato T., Hu J.P., Ohki K., Yamaura M., Washio J., Matsuyama J., Takahashi N. Identification of mutans streptococci by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of polymerase chain reaction-amplified16S ribosomal RNA genes. Oral Microbiol. Immunol. 18:2003;323-326.