Molecular analysis of Staphylococcus aureus isolates associated with staphylococcal food poisoning in South Korea

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 864-871

  Cha, J O ^a,b   Lee, J K ^a   Jung, Y H ^a   Yoo, J I ^a   Park, Y K ^b   Kim, B S ^a   Lee, Y S ^a  

^a Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Enterotoxin; MLST; PFGE; Staphylococcal food poisoning; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; SEEBECK EFFECT; STRAIN; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ENTEROTOXINS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; FOOD POISONING; MLST; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOUTH KOREA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL FOOD POISONING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOXIC SHOCKS;

GENES;

COAGULASE; EXFOLIATIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN;

BACTERIUM; ELECTROKINESIS; FOOD POISONING; GENE EXPRESSION; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOOD POISONING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOUTH KOREA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; SOUTH KOREA;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 33748693896     PISSN: 13645072     EISSN: 13652672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2006.02957.x     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Aires de Sousa, M.A., Crisostomo, M.I., Sanches, S.I., Wu, J.S., Fuzhong, J., Tomasz, A. and de Lencastre, H. (2003) Frequent recovery of a single clonal type of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from patients in two hospitals in Taiwan and China. J Clin Microbiol 41, 159-163.
2. Balaban, N. and Rasooly, A. (2000) Staphylococcal enterotoxins. Review. Int J Food Microbiol 61, 1-10.
3. Becker, K., Friendrich, A.W. and Lubritz, G. (2003) Prevalence of genes encoding pyrogenic toxin superantigens and exfoliative toxins among strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from blood and nasal specimens. J Clin Microbiol 41, 1434-1439.
4. Becker, K., Roth, R. and Peters, G. (1998) Rapid and specific detection of toxigenic Staphylococcus aureus: use of two multiplex PCR enzyme immunoassays for amplification and hybridization of staphylococcal enterotoxin genes, exfoliative toxin genes, and toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 gene. J Clin Microbiol 36, 2548-2553.
5. Bennett, R.W. and Lancette, G.A. (1992) Staphylococcus aureus. In Bacteriological Analytical Manual, 7th edn. Arlington, VA: Association of Official Analytical Chemists International.
6. Bergdoll, M.S. (1983) Enterotoxins. In Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections, vol. 2 ed. Easton, C.S.F. and Adlam, C. pp. 559-598. London: Academic Press Ltd.
7. Bergdoll, M.S. and Dack, G.M. (1959) Identification of staphylococcal enterotoxin B. J Immunol 83, 334-338.
8. Bergdoll, M.S. and Schlievert, P.M. (1984) Toxin-shock syndrome toxin. Lancet ii, 691.
9. Bergdoll, M.S., Borja, C., Robbins, R.R.N. and Weiss, K.F. (1971) Identification of enterotoxin E. Infect Immun 4, 593-595.
10. Dagan, R. (1991) Staphylococcus aureus in impetigo. Am J Dis Child 145, 1223.
11. Dinges, M.M., Orwin, P.M. and Schlievert, P.M. (2000) Exotoxins of Staphylococcus aureus. Clin Microbiol Rev 13, 16-34.
12. Enright, M.C., Day, N.P.J., Davies, C.E., Peacock, S.J. and Spratt, B.G. (2000) Multilocus sequence typing for the characterization of methicillin-resistant (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible (MSSA) clones of Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol 38, 1008-1015.
13. Enright, M.C., Robinson, D.A., Randle, G., Feil, E.J., Grundmann, H. and Spratt, B.G. (2002) The evolutionary history of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99, 7687-7692.
14. Feil, E.J., Li, B.C., Aanensen, D.M., Hanage, W.P. and Spratt, B.G. (2004) eBURST: inferring patterns of evolutionary descent among clusters of related bacterial genotypes from multilocus sequence typing data. J Bacteriol 186, 1518-1530.
15. Jarraud, S., Cozon, G., Vandenesch, F., Bes, M., Etienne, J. and Lina, G. (1999) Involvement of enterotoxins G and I staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome and staphylococcal scarlet fever. J Clin Microbiol 37, 2446-2449.
16. Jarraud, S., Peyrat, M.A., Lim, A., Tristan, A., Bes, M., Mougel, C., Etienne, J., Vandenesch, F. et al. (2001) egc, a highly prevalent operon of enteroxin gene, forms a putative nursery of superantigens in Staphylococcus aureus. J Immunol 166, 669-677.
17. Kikuchi, K., Takahashi, N., Piao, C., Totsuka, K., Nishida, H. and Uchiyama, T. (2003) Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains causing neonatal toxin shock syndrome-like exanthematous disease in neonatal and perinatal wards. J Clin Microbiol 41, 3001-3006.
18. Kloos, W.E. and Bannerman, T.L. (1999) Staphylococcus and Micrococcus. In Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 7th edn. pp. 264-282. Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology.
19. Ko, K.S., Lee, J.Y., Suh, J.Y., Oh, W.S., Peck, K.R., Lee, N.Y. and Song, J.H. (2005) Distribution of major genotypes among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in Asian countries. J Clin Microbiol 43, 421-426.
20. Koning, S., van Belkum, A., Snijders, S., van Leeuwen, W., Verbrugh, H., Nouwen, J. and Verduin, C. (2003) Severity of nonbullous Staphylococcus aureus impetigo in children is associated with strains harboring genetic markers for exfoliative toxin B, panton-valentine leucocidin, and the multidrug resistance plasmid pSK41. J Clin Microbiol 41, 3017-3021.
21. Lee, W-C., Sakai, T. and Lee, M-J. (1996) An epidemiological study of food poisoning in Korea and Japan. Int J Food Microbiol 29, 141-148.
22. Letertre, C., Perelle, S., Dilasser, F. and Fach, P. (2003) Identification of a new putative enterotoxin SEU encoded by the egc cluster of Staphylococcus aureus. J Appl Microbiol 95, 38-43.
23. Le Loir, Y., Baron, F. and Gautier, M. (2003) Staphylococcus aureus and food poisoning. Genet Mol Res 31, 63-76.
24. Lowy, F.D. (1998) Staphylococcus aureus infections. N Engl J Med 339, 520-532.
25. Martin, M.C., Fueyo, J.M., Gonzalez-Hevia, M.A. and Mendoza, M.C. (2004) Genetic procedures for identification of enterotoxigenic strains of Staphylococcus aureus from three food poisoning outbreaks. Int J Food Microbiol 94, 279-286.
26. McLauchlin, J., Narayanan, G.L., Mithani, V. and O'Neill, G. (2000) The detection of enterotoxins and toxic shock syndrome toxin genes in Staphylococcus aureus by polymerase chain reaction. J Food Prot 63, 479-488.
27. Mehrotra, M., Wang, G. and Johnson, W.M. (2000) Multiplex PCR for detection of genes for Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins, exfoliative toxins, toxin shock syndrome toxin 1, and methicillin resistance. J Clin Microbiol 38, 1032-1035.
28. Monday, S.R. and Bohach, G.A. (2001) Genes encoding staphylococcal enterotoxins G and I are linked and separated by DNA related to other staphylococcal enterotoxins. J Nat Toxins 10, 1-8.
29. Monk, A.B., Curtis, S., Paul, J. and Enright, M.C. (2004) Genetic analysis of Staphylococcus aureus from intravenous drug user lesions. J Med Microbiol 53, 223-227.
30. Murchan, S., Kaufmann, M.E., Deplano, A., de Ryck, R., Struelens, M. and Zinn, C.E. (2003) Harmonization of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis protocols for epidemiological typing of strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol 41, 1574-1585.
31. Najera-Sanchez, G., Maldonado-Rodriguez, R., Olivera, P.R. and de la Garza, L.M. (2003) Development of two multiplex polymerase chain reactions for the detection of enterotoxigenic strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from foods. J Food Prot 66, 1055-1062.
32. Naresh, K.S., Catherine, E.D.R. and Christine, E.R.D. (2000) Development of single-reaction multiplex PCR toxin typing assay for Staphylococcus aureus strains. Appl Environ Microbiol 66, 1347-1353.
33. Nilsson, H., Bjork, P., Dohlsten, M. and Antonsson, P. (1999) Staphylococcal enterotoxin H displays unique MHC class II-binding properties. J Immunol 163, 6686-6693.
34. Nishi, J., Yoshinaga, M., Miyanohara, H., Kawahara, M., Motoya, T., Owaki, T., Oiso, S., Kawakami, M. et al. (2002) An epidemiologic survey of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by combined use of mec-HVR genotyping and toxin genotyping in a university hospital in Japan. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 23, 506-510.
35. Omoe, K., Ishikawa, M., Shimoda, Y., Hu, D-L., Ueda, S. and Shinagawa, K. (2002) Detection of seg, seh, and sei genes in Staphylococcus aureus isolates and determination of the enterotoxin productivities of S. aureus isolates harboring seg, seh, or sei Genes. J Clin Microbiol 40, 857-862.
36. Orwin, P.M., Leung, D.Y., Donahue, H.L., Novick, R.P. and Schlievert, P.M. (2001) Biochemical and biological properties of staphylococcal enterotoxin K. Infect Immun 69, 360-366.
37. Pragman, A.A., Yarwood, J.M., Tripp, T.J. and Schlievert, P.M. (2004) Characterization of virulence factor regulation by SrrAB, a two-component system in Staphylococcus aureus. JBacteriol 186, 2430-2438.
38. Shimizu, A., Fujita, M., Igarashi, H., Takagi, M., Nagase, N., Sasaki, A. and Kawano, J. (2000) Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus coagulase type VII isolates from staphylococcal food poisoning outbreaks (1980-1995) in Tokyo, Japan, by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. J Clin Microbiol 38, 3746-3749.
39. Soares, M.J., Tokumaru-Miyazaki, N.H., Noleto, A.L. and Figueiredo, A.M. (1997) Enterotoxin production by Staphylococcus aureus clones and detection of Brazilian epidemic MRSA clone (III::B:A) among isolates from food handlers. J Med Microbiol 46, 214-221.
40. Tenover, F.C., Robert, D.A., Goering, R.V., Mickelsen, P.A., Murray, B.E., Persing, D.H. and Swaminathan, B. (1995) Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing. J Clin Microbiol 3, 2233-2239.
41. Tondo, E.C., Guimaraes, M.C., Henriques, J.A. and Ayub, M.A. (2000) Assessing and analysing contamination of a dairy products processing plant by Staphylococcus aureus using antibiotic resistance and PFGE. Can J Microbiol 46, 1108-1114.
42. Wieneke, A.A., Roberts, D. and Gilbert, R.J. (1993) Staphylococcal food poisoning in the United Kingdom, 1969-90. Epidemiol Infect 110, 519-531.
43. Williams, R.J., Ward, J.M., Henderson, B., Poole, S., O'Hara, B.P., Wilson, M. and Nair, S.P. (2000) Identification of novel gene cluster encoding staphylococcal exotoxin-like proteins: characterization of the prototypic gene and its protein product, SET1. Infect Immun 68, 4407-4415.
44. Yarwood, J.M. and Schleivert, P.M. (2000) Oxygen and carbon dioxide regulation of toxin shock syndrome toxin 1 production by Staphylococcus aureus MN8. J Clin Microbiol 38, 1797-1803.
45. Zadoks, R., van Leeuwen, W., Barkema, H., Sampimon, O., Verbrugh, H., Schukken, Y.H. and van Belkum, A. (2000) Application of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and binary typing as tools in veterinary clinical microbiology and molecular epidemiologic analysis of bovine and human Staphylococcus aureus isolates. J Clin Microbiol 38, 1931-1939.
46. Zhang, S., Iandolo, J.J. and Stewart, G.C. (1998) The enterotoxin D plasmid of Staphylococcus aureus encodes a second enterotoxin determinant (sej). FEMS Microbiol Lett 168, 227-233.