Biogeography and virulence of Staphylococcus aureus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Fan, Juan ^a   Shu, Min ^a   Zhang, Ge ^c   Zhou, Wei ^a   Jiang, Yongmei ^a   Zhu, Yu ^a   Chen, Guihua ^a   Peacock, Sharon J ^e   Wan, Chaomin ^a   Pan, Wubin ^b,c,d   Feil, Edward J ^f  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Crown Bioscience Inc (Beijing)   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SCREENING; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NOSE SMEAR; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROBIOLOGY; NOSE CAVITY; PATHOGENICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; VIRULENCE;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHINA; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; NASAL CAVITY; PHYLOGENY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 67650685262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006216     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Enright MC, Robinson DA, Randle G, Feil EJ, Grundmann H, et al. (2002) The evolutionary history of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99: 7687-7692.
2. Ito T, Katayama Y, Asada K, Mori N, Tsutsumimoto K, et al. (2001) Structural comparison of three types of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec integrated in the chromosome in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 45: 1323-1336.
3. Said-Salim B, Mathema B, Kreiswirth BN (2003) Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: an emerging pathogen. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 24: 451-455.
4. Paez A, Skiest D (2008) Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: From the Hospital to the Community. Curr Infect Dis Rep 10: 14-21.
5. Nygaard TK, DeLeo FR, Voyich JM (2008) Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin infections: advances toward identifying the key virulence factors. Curr Opin Infect Dis 21: 147-152.
6. Deurenberg RH, Vink C, Kalenic S, Friedrich AW, Bruggeman CA, et al. (2007) The molecular evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Clin Microbiol Infect 13: 222-235.
7. Zhang K, McClure JA, Elsayed S, Conly JM (2009) Novel staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type, tentatively designated type VIII, harboring class A mec and type 4 ccr gene complexes in a Canadian epidemic strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53: 531-540.
8. Ma XX, Ito T, Tiensasitorn C, Jamklang M, Chongtrakool P, et al. (2002) Novel type of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec identified in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 46: 1147-1152.
9. Ito T, Ma XX, Takeuchi F, Okuma K, Yuzawa H, et al. (2004) Novel type V staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec driven by a novel cassette chromosome recombinase, ccrC. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 48: 2637-2651.
10. Oliveira DC, Milheirico C, de Lencastre H (2006) Redefining a structural variant of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec, SCCmec type VI. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 50: 3457-3459.
11. Berglund C, Ito T, Ikeda M, Ma XX, Soderquist B, et al. (2008) Novel type of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec in a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain isolated in Sweden. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 52: 3512-3516.
12. Vandenesch F, Naimi T, Enright MC, Lina G, Nimmo GR, et al. (2003) Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes: worldwide emergence. Emerg Infect Dis 9: 978-984.
13. Martinez-Aguilar G, Avalos-Mishaan A, Hulten K, Hammerman W, Mason EO Jr, et al. (2004) Community-acquired, methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus musculoskeletal infections in children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 23: 701-706.
14. Ma XX, Ito T, Chongtrakool P, Hiramatsu K (2006) Predominance of clones carrying Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in Japanese hospitals from 1979 to 1985. J Clin Microbiol 44: 4515-4527.
15. Feng Y, Chen CJ, Su LH, Hu S, Yu J, et al. (2008) Evolution and pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus: lessons learned from genotyping and comparative genomics. FEMS Microbiol Rev 32: 23-37.
16. Gillet Y, Issartel B, Vanhems P, Fournet JC, Lina G, et al. (2002) Association between Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying gene for Panton-Valentine leukocidin and highly lethal necrotising pneumonia in young immunocompetent patients. Lancet 359: 753-759.
17. Voyich JM, Otto M, Mathema B, Braughton KR, Whitney AR, et al. (2006) Is Panton-Valentine leukocidin the major virulence determinant in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease? J Infect Dis 194: 1761-1770.
18. Bubeck Wardenburg J, Bae T, Otto M, Deleo FR, Schneewind O (2007) Poring over pores: alpha-hemolysin and Panton-Valentine leukocidin in Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia. Nat Med 13: 1405-1406.
19. Fraser C, Hanage WP, Spratt BG (2005) Neutral microepidemic evolution of bacterial pathogens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102: 1968-1973.
20. Aires de Sousa M, Conceicao T, Simas C, de Lencastre H (2005) Comparison of genetic backgrounds of methicillin-resistant and -susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates from Portuguese hospitals and the community. J Clin Microbiol 43: 5150-5157.
21. Feil EJ, Cooper JE, Grundmann H, Robinson DA, Enright MC, et al. (2003) How clonal is Staphylococcus aureus? J Bacteriol 185: 3307-3316.
22. Lindsay JA, Moore CE, Day NP, Peacock SJ, Witney AA, et al. (2006) Microarrays reveal that each of the ten dominant lineages of Staphylococcus aureus has a unique combination of surface-associated and regulatory genes. J Bacteriol 188: 669-676.
23. Turner KM, Feil EJ (2007) The secret life of the multilocus sequence type. Int J Antimicrob Agents 29: 129-135.
24. Kennedy AD, Otto M, Braughton KR, Whitney AR, Chen L, et al. (2008) Epidemic community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: recent clonal expansion and diversification. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105: 1327-1332.
25. Tang CT, Nguyen DT, Ngo TH, Nguyen TM, Le VT, et al. (2007) An outbreak of severe infections with community-acquired MRSA carrying the Panton-Valentine leukocidin following vaccination. PLoS ONE 2: e822.
26. Ruimy R, Maiga A, Armand-Lefevre L, Maiga I, Diallo A, et al. (2008) The carriage population of Staphylococcus aureus from Mali is composed of a combination of pandemic clones and the divergent Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive genotype ST152. J Bacteriol 190: 3962-3968.
27. Nickerson EK, Wuthiekanun V, Day NP, Chaowagul W, Peacock SJ (2006) Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in rural Asia. Lancet Infect Dis 6: 70-71.
28. Lo WT, Lin WJ, Tseng MH, Lu JJ, Lee SY, et al. (2007) Nasal carriage of a single clone of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among kindergarten attendees in northern Taiwan. BMC Infect Dis 7: 51.
29. Lo WT, Lin WJ, Tseng MH, Wang SR, Chu ML, et al. (2008) Risk factors and molecular analysis of panton-valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in healthy children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 27: 713-718.
30. de Neeling AJ, van den Broek MJ, Spalburg EC, van Santen-Verheuvel MG, Dam-Deisz WD, et al. (2007) High prevalence of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in pigs. Vet Microbiol 122: 366-372.
31. Sakwinska O, Kuhn G, Balmelli C, Francioli P, Giddey M, et al. (2008) Genetic diversity and ecological success of colonizing Staphylococcus aureus. Appl Environ Microbiol.
32. Feil EJ, Li BC, Aanensen DM, Hanage WP, Spratt BG (2004) eBURST: inferring patterns of evolutionary descent among clusters of related bacterial genotypes from multilocus sequence typing data. J Bacteriol 186: 1518-1530.
33. Sakwinska O, Kuhn G, Balmelli C, Francioli P, Giddey M, et al. (2009) Genetic diversity and ecological success of Staphylococcus aureus strains colonizing humans. Appl Environ Microbiol 75: 175-183.
34. Jolley KA, Kalmusova J, Feil EJ, Gupta S, Musilek M, et al. (2000) Carried meningococci in the Czech Republic: a diverse recombining population. J Clin Microbiol 38: 4492-4498.
35. Cooper JE, Feil EJ (2006) The phylogeny of Staphylococcus aureus - which genes make the best intra-species markers? Microbiology 152: 1297-1305.
36. Yu F, Chen Z, Liu C, Zhang X, Lin X, et al. (2008) Prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus carrying Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes among isolates from hospitalised patients in China. Clin Microbiol Infect 14: 381-384.
37. Nubel U, Roumagnac P, Feldkamp M, Song JH, Ko KS, et al. (2008) Frequent emergence and limited geographic dispersal of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105: 14130-14135.
38. Takano T, Higuchi W, Otsuka T, Baranovich T, Enany S, et al. (2008) Novel characteristics of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains belonging to multilocus sequence type 59 in Taiwan. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 52: 837-845.
39. Takano T, Saito K, Teng LJ, Yamamoto T (2007) Spread of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitals in Taipei, Taiwan in 2005, and comparison of its drug resistance with previous hospital-acquired MRSA. Microbiol Immunol 51: 627-632.
40. Chen CJ, Su LH, Chiu CH, Lin TY, Wong KS, et al. (2007) Clinical features and molecular characteristics of invasive community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in Taiwanese children. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 59: 287-293.
41. Bauer AW, Kirby WM, Sherris JC, Turck M (1966) Antibiotic susceptibility testing by a standardized single disk method. Am J Clin Pathol 45: 493-496.
42. Lina G, Piemont Y, Godail-Gamot F, Bes M, Peter MO, et al. (1999) Involvement of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing Staphylococcus aureus in primary skin infections and pneumonia. Clin Infect Dis 29: 1128-1132.
43. Enright MC, Day NP, Davies CE, Peacock SJ, Spratt BG (2000) Multilocus sequence typing for characterization of methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible clones of Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol 38: 1008-1015.
44. Robinson DA, Enright MC (2004) Multilocus sequence typing and the evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Clin Microbiol Infect 10: 92-97.
45. Jolley KA, Feil EJ, Chan MS, Maiden MC (2001) Sequence type analysis and recombinational tests (START). Bioinformatics 17: 1230-1231.
46. Tamura K, Dudley J, Nei M, Kumar S (2007) MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0. Mol Biol Evol 24: 1596-1599.
47. Haubold B, Hudson RR (2000) LIAN 3.0: detecting linkage disequilibrium in multilocus data. Linkage Analysis. Bioinformatics 16: 847-848.