Avian Reservoirs and Zoonotic Potential of the Emerging Human Pathogen Helicobacter canadensis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 7523-7526

  Waldenström, Jonas ^a   On, Stephen L W ^d   Ottvall, Richard ^a   Hasselquist, Dennis ^a   Harrington, Clare S ^d   Olsen, Björn ^b,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Res Inst Zoonotic Ecol/Epidemiol   (Sweden)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GENES; RNA; STRAIN;

AVIAN RESERVOIRS; PATHOGEN; ZOONOTIC POTENTIAL;

MICROBIOLOGY;

RNA 16S; RIBOSOME DNA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRANTA CANDENSIS; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE SEQUENCE; GOOSE; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER CANADENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMIC RANK; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA; ANSER; ANSER SP.; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRANTA; BRANTA CANADENSIS; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; CAMPYLOBACTER; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER CANADENSIS; THORACICA;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GEESE; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 2142690660     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.12.7523-7526.2003     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Andersen, L. P. 2001. New Helicobacter species in humans. Dig. Dis. 19:112-115.
2. Angen, Ø., P. Ahrens, and C. Tegtmeier. 1998. Development of a species-specific PCR test for identification of [Haemophilus] somnus in pure and mixed cultures. Vet. Microbiol. 63:39-48.
3. Atabay, H. L., J. E. L. Corry, and S. L. W. On. 1998. Identification of unusual Campylobacter-like organisms in poultry products as Helicobacter pullorum. J. Appl. Microbiol. 84:1017-1024.
4. Dewhirst, F. E., C. Seymour, G. J. Fraser, B. J. Paster, and J. G. Fox. 1994. Phylogeny of Helicobacter isolates from bird and swine feces and description of Helicobacter pametensis sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 44:553-560.
5. Fox, J. G., C. C. Chien, F. E. Dewhirst, B. J. Paster, Z. Shen, P. L. Melito, D. L. Woodward, and F. G. Rodgers. 2000. Helicobacter canadensis sp. nov. isolated from humans with diarrhea as an example of an emerging pathogen. J. Clin. Microbiol. 38:2546-2549.
6. Fox, J. G., Z. Shen, S. Xu, Y. Feng, C. A. Dangler, F. E. Dewhirst, B. J. Paster, and J. M. Cullen. 2002. Helicobacter marmotae sp. nov. isolated from livers of woodchucks and intestines of cats. J. Clin. Microbiol. 40:2513-2519.
7. Hanninen, M.-L., H. Haajanen, T. Pummi, K. Wermundsen, M. L. Katila, H. Sarkkinen, I. Miettinen, and H. Rautelin. 2003. Detection and typing of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli and analysis of indicator organisms in three waterborne outbreaks in Finland. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69:1391-1396.
8. Lastovica, A. J., and M. B. Skirrow. 2000. Clinical significance of Campylobacter and related species other than Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli, p. 89-120. In I. Nachamkin and M. J. Blaser (ed.), Campylobacter, 2nd ed. ASM Press, Washington, D.C.
9. On, S. L. W. 1996. Identification methods for campylobacters, helicobacters, and related organisms. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 9:405-422.
10. On, S. L. W. 2001. Taxonomy of Campylobacter, Arcobacter, Helicobacter, and related bacteria: current status, future prospects, and immediate concerns. Symp. Ser. Soc. Appl. Microbiol. 90:1S-15S.
11. On, S. L. W., H. I. Atabay, J. E. I. Corry, C. S. Harrington, and P. Vandamme. 1998. Emended description of Campylobacter sputorum and revision of its infrasubspecific (biovar) divisions, including C. sputorum bv. paraureolyticus, a urease-producing variant from cattle and humans. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 48:195-206.
12. On, S. L. W., and C. S. Harrington. 2000. Identification of taxonomic and epidemiological relationships among Campylobacter species by numerical analysis of AFLP profiles. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 193:161-169.
13. On, S. L. W., B. Holmes, and M. J. Sackin. 1996. A probability matrix for the identification of campylobacters, helicobacters, and allied taxa. J. Appl. Bacteriol. 81:425-432.
14. On, S. L. W., A. Lee, J. O'Rourke, F. E. Dewhirst, B. J. Paster, J. G. Fox, and P. Vandamme. Genus Helicobacter. In G. M. Garrity (ed.), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, 2nd ed., in press. Springer-Verlag, New York, N.Y.
15. On, S. L. W., and P. Vandamme. 1997. Identification and epidemiological typing of Campylobacter hyointestinalis subspecies by phenotypic and genotypic methods and description of novel subgroups. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 20:238-247.
16. Solnick, J. V., and D. B. Schauer. 2001. Emergence of diverse Helicobacter species in the pathogenesis of gastric and enterohepatic diseases. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 14:59-97.
17. Stanley, J., D. Linton, A. P. Burnens, F. E. Dewhirst, S. L. W. On, A. Porter, R. J. Owen, and M. Costas. 1994. Helicobacter pullorum sp. nov. -genotype and phenotype of a new species isolated from poultry and from human patients with gastroenteritis. Microbiology 140:3441-3449.
18. Steinbrueckner, B., G. Haerter, R. Pelz, A. Burnens, and M. Kist. 1998. Discrimination of Helicobacter pullorum and Campylobacter lari by analysis of whole cell fatty acid extracts. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 168:209-212.
19. Tee, W., J. Montgomery, and M. Dyall-Smith. 2001. Bacteremia caused by a Helicobacter pullorum-like organism. Clin. Infect. Dis. 33:1789-1791.
20. Waldenström, J., T. Broman, I. Carlsson, D. Hasselquist, R. P. Achterberg, J. A. Wagenaar, and B. Olsen. 2002. Prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter lari, and Campylobacter coli in different ecological guilds and taxa of migrating birds. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68:5911-5917.
21. Young, V. B., C. C. Chien, K. A. Knox, N. S. Taylor, D. B. Schauer, and J. G. Fox. 2000. Cytolethal distending toxin in avian and human isolates of Helicobacter pullorum. J. Infect. Dis. 182:620-623.