Molecular epidemiology of legionella pneumophila environmental isolates representing nine different serogroups determined by automated ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1097-1105

  Boccia, S ^a   Stenico, A ^b   Amore, R ^a   Moroder, L ^b   Orsini, M ^a   Romano Spica, V ^c   Ricciardi, G ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Biological Laboratory   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ITALY; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RELIABILITY; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPING; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 28244457411     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805004395     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Fields BS, Benson RF, Besser RE. Legionella and Legionnaires' disease: 25 years of investigation. Clin Microbiol Rev 2002; 15: 506-526.
2. Luck PC, Helbig JH, Gunter U, et al. Epidemiologic investigation by macrorestriction analysis and by using monoclonal antibodies of nosocomial pneumonia caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 10. J Clin Microbiol 1994; 32: 2692-2697.
3. Perola O, Kauppinen J, Kusnetsov J, Heikkinen J, Jokinen C, Katila ML. Nosocomial Legionella pneumophila serogroup 5 outbreak associated with persistent colonization of a hospital water system. APMIS 2002; 110: 863-868.
4. Steinert M, Hentschel U, Hacker J. Legionella pneumophila: An aquatic microbe goes astray. FEMS Microbiol Rev 2002; 26: 149-162.
5. Fry NK, Alexiou-Daniel S, Bangsborg JM, et al. A multicenter evaluation of genotypic methods for the epidemiologic typing of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1: Results of a pan-European study. Clin Microbiol Infect 1999; 5: 462-477.
6. Fry NK, Bangsborg JM, Bergmans A, et al. Designation of the European Working Group on Legionella Infection (EWGLI) amplified fragment length polymorphism types of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 and results of intercentre proficiency testing using a standard protocol. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2002; 21: 722-728.
7. Aurell H, Etienne J, Forey F, et al. Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 strain Paris: Endemic distribution throughout France. J Clin Microbiol 2003; 41: 3320-3322.
8. Boccia S, Laurenti P, Borella P, et al. Prospective three-year surveillance for nosocomial and environmental legionella: Implications for infection control. Inf Contr Hosp Epidemiol (in press).
9. Schoonmaker D, Heimberger T, Birkhead G. Comparison of ribotyping and restriction enzyme analysis using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for distinguishing Legionella pneumophila isolates obtained during a nosocomial outbreak. J Clin Microbiol 1992; 30: 1491-1498.
10. De Cesare A, Manfreda G, Dambaugh TR, Guerzoni ME, Franchini A. Automated ribotyping and random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis for molecular typing of Salmonella enteritidis and Salmonella typhimurium strains isolated in Italy. J Appl Microbiol 2001; 91: 780-785.
11. Pettigrew MM, Foxman B, Ecevit Z, Marrs CF, Gilsdorf J. Use of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus typing, and automated ribotyping to assess genomic variability among strains of nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. J Clin Microbiol 2002; 40: 660-662.
12. Price CS, Huynh H, Paule S, et al. Comparison of an automated ribotyping system to restriction endonuclease analysis and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for differentiating vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates. J Clin Microbiol 2002; 40: 1858-1861.
13. Inglis TJ, O'Reilly L, Foster N, Clair A, Sampson J. Comparison of rapid, automated ribotyping and DNA macrorestriction analysis of Burkholderia pseudomallei. J Clin Microbiol 2002; 40: 3198-3203.
14. Cordevant C, Tang JS, Cleland D, Lange M. Characterization of members of the Legionellaceae family by automated ribotyping. J Clin Microbiol 2003; 41: 34-43.
15. Bernander S, Jacobson K, Lundholm M. A hospital-associated outbreak of Legionnaires' disease caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroups 4 and 10 with a common genetic fingerprinting pattern. APMIS 2004; 112: 210-217.
16. Visca P, Goldoni P, Luck PC, et al. Multiple types of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 6 in a hospital heated-water system associated with sporadic infections. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37: 2189-2196.
17. Harrison TG, Saunders NA, Haththotuwa A, Doshi N, Taylor G. Further evidence that genotypically closely related strains of Legionella pneumophila can express different serogroup specific antigens. J Med Microbiol 1992; 37: 155-161.
18. Zietz B, Wiese J, Brengelmann F, Dunkelberg H. Presence of Legionellaceae in warm water supplies and typing of strains by polymerase chain reaction. Epidemiol Infect 2001; 126: 147-152.
19. Superior Institute of Health. Italian guidelines for prevention and control of legionellosis. G.U. 5/5/2000, n. 103.
20. ISO 11731. Water quality - detection and enumeration of Legionella, 1998.
21. Clermont O, Cordevant C, Bonacorsi S, Marecat A, Lange M, Bingen E. Automated ribotyping provides rapid phylogenetic subgroup affiliation of clinical extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli strains. J Clin Microbiol 2001; 39: 4549-4553.
22. Bruce JL. Automated system rapidly identifies and characterizes microoroganisms in foods. Food Technol 1996; 50: 77-81.
23. Pfaller MA, Wendt C, Hollis RJ, et al. Comparative evaluation of an automated ribotyping system versus pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for epidemiological typing of clinical isolates of Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa from patients with gram-negative bacteremia. Diag Microbiol Infect Dis 1996; 25: 1-8.
24. Dice LR. Measures of the amount of ecological association between species. J Ecol 1945; 26: 297-302.
25. Tenover FC, Arbeit RB, Goering RV, et al. Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing. J Clin Microbiol 1995; 33: 2233-2239.
26. Snyder MB, Siwicki M, Wireman J, et al. Reduction in Legionella pneumophila through heat flushing followed by continuous supplemental chlorination of hospital hot water. J Infect Dis 1990; 162: 127-132.
27. Doleans A, Aurell H, Reyrolle M, et al. Clinical and environmental distributions of Legionella strains in France are different. J Clin Microbiol 2004; 42: 458-460.
28. Lawrence C, Reyrolle M, Dubrou S, et al. Single clonal origin of a high proportion of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 isolates from patients and the environment in the area of Paris, France, over a 10-year period. J Clin Microbiol 1999; 37: 2652-2655.
29. Pruckler JM, Mermel LA, Benson RF, et al. Comparison of Legionella pneumophila isolates by arbitrarily primed PCR and by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: Analysis from seven epidemic investigations. J Clin Microbiol 1995; 33: 2872-2875.
30. Thouverez M, Godard C, Leprat R, Talon D. Is pulsed-field gel electrophoresis a valuable tool to identify nosocomial cases of Legionella pneumophila disease? J Hosp Infect 2003; 55: 254-259.
31. Kool JL, Buchholz U, Peterson C, et al. Strengths and limitations of molecular subtyping in a community outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. Epidemiol Infect 2000; 125: 599-608.
32. Helbig JH, Bernander S, Castellani Pastoris M, et al. Pan-European study on culture-proven Legionnaires' disease: Distribution of Legionella pneumophila sero-groups and monoclonal subgroups. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2002; 21: 710-716.
33. van Ketel RJ. Similar DNA restriction endonuclease profiles in strains of Legionella pneumophila from different serogroups J Clin Microbiol 1988; 26: 1838-1841.
34. Bernander S, Jacobson K, Helbig JH, Luck PC, Lundholm M. A hospital-associated outbreak of Legionnaires' disease caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 is characterized by stable genetic fingerprinting but variable monoclonal antibody patterns. J Clin Microbiol 2003; 41: 2503-2508.