Mycobacterium microti: More diverse than previously thought

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2551-2559

  Smith, N H ^a,b   Crawshaw, T ^c   Parry, J ^a   Birtles, R J ^d  

^a VLA Weybridge   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CAT; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MICROTI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

BOS; FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MICROTI; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; RODENTIA; SORICIDAE;

EID: 68549107655     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00638-09     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Brodin, P., K. Eiglmeier, M. Marmiesse, A. Billault, T. Garnier, S. Niemann, S. T. Cole, and R. Brosch. 2002. Bacterial artificial chromosome-based comparative genomic analysis identifies Mycobacterium microti as a natural ESAT-6 deletion mutant. Infect. Immun. 70:5568-5578.
2. Brosch, R., S. V. Gordon, M. Marmiesse, P. Brodin, C. Buchrieser, K. Eiglmeier, T. Garnier, C. Gutierrez, G. Hewinson, K. Kremer, L. M. Parsons, A. S. Pym, S. Samper, D. van Soolingen, and S. T. Cole. 2002. A new evolutionary scenario for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99:3684-3689.
3. Burthe, S., M. Bennett, A. Kipar, X. Lambin, A. Smith, S. Telfer, and M. Begon. 2008. Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium microti) in wild field vole populations. Parasitology 135:309-317.
4. Cadmus, S., S. Palmer, M. Okker, J. Dale, K. Gover, N. Smith, K. Jahans, R. G. Hewinson, and S. V. Gordon. 2006. Molecular analysis of human and bovine tubercle bacilli from a local setting in Nigeria. J. Clin. Microbiol. 44:29-34.
5. Cavanagh, R., M. Begon, M. Bennett, T. Ergon, I. M. Graham, P. E. De Haas, C. A. Hart, M. Koedam, K. Kremer, X. Lambin, P. Roholl, and D. van Soolingen. 2002. Mycobacterium microti infection (vole tuberculosis) in wild rodent populations. J. Clin. Microbiol. 40:3281-3285.
6. Chitty, D. 1954. Tuberculosis among wild voles: with a discussion of other pathological conditions among certain mammals and birds. Ecology 35:227-237.
7. Cousins, D. V., R. Bastida, A. Cataldi, V. Quse, S. Redrobe, S. Dow, P. Duignan, A. Murray, C. Dupont, N. Ahmed, D. M. Collins, W. R. Butler, D. Dawson, D. Rodrâiguez, J. Loureiro, M. I. Romano, A. Alito, M. Zumarraga, and A. Bernardelli. 2003. Tuberculosis in seals caused by a novel member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: Mycobacterium pinnipedii sp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 53:1305-1314.
8. Deforges, L., H. J. Boulouis, J. L. Thibaud, L. Boulouha, W. Sougakoff, S. Blot, G. Hewinson, C. Truffot-Pernot, and N. Haddad. 2004. First isolation of Mycobacterium microti (llama-type) from a dog. Vet. Microbiol. 103:249-253.
9. Delahay, R. J., A. N. De Leeuw, A. M. Barlow, R. S. Clifton-Hadley, and C. L. Cheeseman. 2002. The status of Mycobacterium bovis infection in UK wild mammals: a review. Vet. J. 164:90-105.
10. Delahay, R. J., G. C. Smith, A. M. Barlow, N. Walker, A. Harris, R. S. Clifton-Hadley, and C. L. Cheeseman. 2007. Bovine tuberculosis infection in wild mammals in the south-west region of England: a survey of prevalence and a semi-quantitative assessment of the relative risks to cattle. Vet. J. 173:287-301.
11. Donnelly, C. A., G. Wei, W. T. Johnston, D. R. Cox, R. Woodroffe, F. J. Bourne, C. L. Cheeseman, R. S. Clifton-Hadley, G. Gettinby, P. Gilks, H. E. Jenkins, A. M. Le Fevre, J. P. McInerney, and W. I. Morrison. 2007. Impacts of widespread badger culling on cattle tuberculosis: concluding analyses from a large-scale field trial. Int. J. Infect. Dis. 11:300-308.
12. Edwards, T. 2006. New Tuberculosis (England) Order. Vet. Rec. 158:246.
13. Frothingham, R., and W. A. Meeker-O'Connell. 1998. Genetic diversity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex based on variable numbers of tandem DNA repeats. Microbiology 144:1189-1196.
14. Garcia-Pelayo, M. C., K. C. Caimi, J. K. Inwald, J. Hinds, F. Bigi, M. I. Romano, D. van Soolingen, R. G. Hewinson, A. Cataldi, and S. V. Gordon. 2004. Microarray analysis of Mycobacterium microti reveals deletion of genes encoding PE-PPE proteins and ESAT-6 family antigens. Tuberculosis (Edinburgh) 84:159-166.
15. Geiss, H. K., R. Feldhues, S. Niemann, O. Nolte, and R. Rieker. 2005. Landouzy septicemia (sepsis tuberculosa acutissima) due to Mycobacterium microti in an immunocompetent man. Infection 33:393-396.
16. Groenen, P. M., A. E. Bunschoten, D. van Soolingen, and J. D. van Embden. 1993. Nature of DNA polymorphism in the direct repeat cluster of Mycobacterium tuberculosis; application for strain differentiation by a novel typing method. Mol. Microbiol. 10:1057-1065.
17. Gunn-Moore, D. A., P. A. Jenkins, and V. M. Lucke. 1996. Feline tuberculosis: a literature review and discussion of 19 cases caused by an unusual mycobacterial variant. Vet. Rec. 138:53-58.
18. Harris, S., and D. W. Yalden. 2008. Mammals of the British Isles: handbook, 4th ed. Mammal Society, Southampton, United Kingdom.
19. Hart, P. D., and I. Sutherland. 1977. BCG and vole bacillus vaccines in the prevention of tuberculosis in adolescence and early adult life. Br. Med. J. 2:293-295.
20. Huard, R. C., M. Fabre, P. de Haas, L. C. Lazzarini, D. van Soolingen, D. Cousins, and J. L. Ho. 2006. Novel genetic polymorphisms that further delineate the phylogeny of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. J. Bacteriol. 188:4271-4287.
21. Jahans, K., S. Palmer, J. Inwald, J. Brown, and S. Abayakoon. 2004. Isolation of Mycobacterium microti from a male Charolais-Hereford cross. Vet. Rec. 155:373-374.
22. Jahans, K., and D. Worth. 2006. The laboratory diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis. Gov. Vet. J. 16:53-57.
23. Jespersen, A. 1976. Multiplication of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis in Microtus agrestis (field vole). Acta Pathol. Microbiol. Scand. [B]. 84:57-60.
24. Kamerbeek, J., L. Schouls, A. Kolk, M. van Agterveld, D. van Soolingen, S. Kuijper, A. Bunschoten, H. Molhuizen, R. Shaw, M. Goyal, and J. van Embden. 1997. Simultaneous detection and strain differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis for diagnosis and epidemiology. J. Clin. Microbiol. 35:907-914.
25. Kremer, K., D. van Soolingen, J. van Embden, S. Hughes, J. Inwald, and G. Hewinson. 1998. Mycobacterium microti: more widespread than previously thought. J. Clin. Microbiol. 36:2793-2794.
26. Mathews, F., D. W. Macdonald, G. M. Taylor, M. Gelling, R. A. Norman, P. E. Honess, R. Foster, C. M. Gower, S. Varley, A. Harris, S. Palmer, G. Hewinson, and J. P. Webster. 2006. Bovine tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis) in British farmland wildlife: the importance to agriculture. Proc. Biol. Sci. 273:357-365.
27. Monies, B., R. de la Rua, and K. Jahans. 2006. Bovine tuberculosis in cats. Vet. Rec. 158:490-491.
28. Mostowy, S., D. Cousins, J. Brinkman, A. Aranaz, and M. A. Behr. 2002. Genomic deletions suggest a phylogeny for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. J. Infect. Dis. 186:74-80.
29. Müller, B., M. Hilty, S. Berg, M. C. Garcia-Pelayo, J. Dale, M. L. Boschiroli, S. Cadmus, B. Nare, R. Ngandolo, S. Godreuil, C. Diguimbaye-Djaibe, R. Kazwala, B. Bonfoh, B. M. Njanpop-Lafourcade, N. Sahraoui, D. Guetarni, A. Aseffa, M. H. Mekonnen, V. Rasolofo Razanamparany, H. Ramarokoto, B. Djonne, J. Oloya, A. Machado, C. Mucavele, E. Skjerve, F. Portaels, L. Rigouts, A. Michel, A. Muller, G. Kallenius, P. D. van Helden, R. G. Hewinson, J. Zinsstag, S. V. Gordon, and N. H. Smith. 2009. African 1, an epidemiologically important clonal complex of Mycobacterium bovis dominant in Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad. J. Bacteriol. 191:1951-1960.
30. Niemann, S., E. Richter, H. Dalügge-Tamm, H. Schlesinger, D. Graupner, B. Königstein, G. Gurath, U. Greinert, and S. Rüsch-Gerdes. 2000. Two cases of Mycobacterium microti derived tuberculosis in HIV-negative immunocompetent patients. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 6:539-542.
31. Paul, R. 1961. The effects of vole bacillus vaccination of African mine workers in the northern Rhodesian copper mines. Br. J. Ind. Med. 18:148.
32. Ritz, N., W. A. Hanekom, R. Robins-Browne, W. J. Britton, and N. Curtis. 2008. Influence of BCG vaccine strain on the immune response and protection against tuberculosis. FEMS Microbiol. Rev. 32:821-841.
33. Selander, R. K., D. A. Caugant, H. Ochman, J. M. Musser, M. N. Gilmour, and T. S. Whittam. 1986. Methods of multilocus enzyme electrophoresis for bacterial population genetics and systematics. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 51:873-884.
34. Smith, N. H., S. V. Gordon, R. de la Rua-Domenech, R. S. Clifton-Hadley, and R. G. Hewinson. 2006. Bottlenecks and broomsticks: the molecular evolution of Mycobacterium bovis. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 4:670-681.
35. Smith, N. H., K. Kremer, J. Inwald, J. Dale, J. R. Driscoll, S. V. Gordon, D. van Soolingen, R. G. Hewinson, and J. M. Smith. 2006. Ecotypes of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. J. Theor. Biol. 239:220-225.
36. Sula, L., and I. Radkovsky. 1976. Protective effects of M. microti vaccine against tuberculosis. J. Hyg. Epidemiol. Microbiol. Immunol. 20:1-6.
37. Taylor, C., K. Jahans, S. Palmer, M. Okker, J. Brown, and K. Steer. 2006. Mycobacterium microti isolated from two pigs. Vet. Rec. 159:59-60.
38. van der Zanden, A. G., A. H. Hoentjen, F. G. Heilmann, E. F. Weltevreden, L. M. Schouls, and J. D. van Embden. 1998. Simultaneous detection and strain differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in paraffin wax embedded tissues and in stained microscopic preparations. Mol. Pathol. 51:209-214.
39. van Embden, J. D., T. van Gorkom, K. Kremer, R. Jansen, B. A. van Der Zeijst, and L. M. Schouls. 2000. Genetic variation and evolutionary origin of the direct repeat locus of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex bacteria. J. Bacteriol. 182:2393-2401.
40. van Soolingen, D. 1998. Utility of molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis. Eur. Respir. J. 11:795-797.
41. van Soolingen, D., A. G. van der Zanden, P. E. de Haas, G. T. Noordhoek, A. Kiers, N. A. Foudraine, F. Portaels, A. H. Kolk, K. Kremer, and J. D. van Embden. 1998. Diagnosis of Mycobacterium microti infections among humans by using novel genetic markers. J. Clin. Microbiol. 36:1840-1845.
42. Wayne, L. G., and G. P. Kubica. 1986. The Mycobacteria. The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, MD.
43. Wells, A. Q. 1946. The murine type of tubercle bacillus (the vole acid-fast bacillus). Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
44. Woods, M., R. A. McDonald, and S. Harris. 2003. Predation of wildlife by domestic cats Felis catus in Great Britain. Mammal Rev. 33:174-188.
45. Xavier Emmanuel, F., A. L. Seagar, C. Doig, A. Rayner, P. Claxton, and I. Laurenson. 2007. Human and animal infections with Mycobacterium microti, Scotland. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 13:1924-1927.
46. Yalden, D. 1999. The history of British mammals. T & AD Poyser Natural History, London, United Kingdom.