SNR analysis: Molecular investigation of an anthrax epidemic

BMC Veterinary Research

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Garofolo, Giuliano ^a   Ciammaruconi, Andrea ^b   Fasanella, Antonio ^a   Scasciamacchia, Silvia ^a   Adone, Rosanna ^c   Pittiglio, Valentina ^b   Lista, Florigio ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA PUGLIA E DELLA BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b Army Medical and Veterinary Research Center   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CATTLE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ITALY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CATTLE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOTYPE; ITALY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77951921301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17466148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-6148-6-11     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Fasanella A, Van Ert M, Altamura SA, Garofolo G, Buonavoglia C, Leori G, Huynh L, Zanecki S, Keim P. Molecular diversity of Bacillus anthracis in Italy. J Clin Microbiol 2005, 43:3398-3401. 10.1128/JCM.43.7.3398-3401.2005, 1169099, 16000465.
2. Hugh-Jones ME, de Vos V. Anthrax and wildlife. Rev Sci Tech 2002, 2:359-389.
3. Hugh-Jones ME. 1996-97 Global Anthrax report. J Appl Microbiol 1999, 87:189-191. 10.1046/j.1365-2672.1999.00867.x, 10475945.
4. Turner AJ, Galvin JW, Rubira RJ, Condron RJ, Brandley T. Experiences with vaccination and epidemiological investigations on an anthrax outbreak in Australia in 1997. J of Appl Microbiol 1999, 87:294-298.
5. Turnbull PC, Bell RH, Saigawa K, Munyenyembe FE, Mulenga CK. Anthrax in wildlife in Luangwa Valley, Zambia. Vet Rec 1991, 128:399-403.
6. Fasanella A, Palazzo L, Petrella A, Quaranta V, Romanelli B, Garofolo G. Anthrax in red deer (Cervus elaphus), Italy. Emerg Infect Dis 2007, 13(7):1118-9.
7. Dragon DC, Rennie RP. ecology of anthrax spores: tough but not invincible. Can Vet J 1999, 36(5):The295-301.
8. Dragon DC, Bader DE, Mitchell J, Woollen N. Natural dissemination of Bacillus anthracis spores in Northern Canada. Appl Environ Microbiol 2005, 71(3):1610-1615. 10.1128/AEM.71.3.1610-1615.2005, 1065140, 15746366.
9. Mitzmain MB. Experimental insect transmission of anthrax. Public Health Reports 1914, 29:75-7716.
10. Kraneveld FC, Djaenoedin R. Test on the dissemination of anthrax by Tabanus rubidus in horses and buffalo. Overgedrukt uit de Nederlands-Indische Bladen Voor Diergeneeskunde 1940, 52:339-80.
11. Rao NS, Mohiyudeen S. Tabanus flies as transmitters of anthrax - a field experience. Indian Veterinary Journal 1958, 35:348-353.
12. Davies JC. A major epidemic of anthrax in Zimbabwe. Part II. Cent Afr J Med 1983, 29(1):8-12.
13. Turrel MJ, Knudson GB. Mechanical transmission of Bacillus anthracis by stable flies (Stomoxys calcitrans) and mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti and Aedes taeniorhynchus). Infection and immunity 1987, 55:1859-1961. 260614, 3112013.
14. Hugh-Jones M, Blackburn J. The ecology of Bacillus anthracis. Molecular Aspects of Medicine 2009, 30(6):356-67. 10.1016/j.mam.2009.08.003, 19720074.
15. Keim P, van Ert MN, Pearson T, Vogler AJ, Huynh LY, Wagner DM. Anthrax molecular epidemiology and forensics: using the appropriate marker for different evolutionary scales. Infect Genet Evol 2004, 4:205-213. 10.1016/j.meegid.2004.02.005, 15450200.
16. Keim P, Price LB, Klevytska AM, Smith KL, Schupp JM, Okinaka R, Jackson P, Hugh Jones ME. Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis Reveals Genetic Relationships within Bacillus anthracis. J Bacteriology 2000, 182:2928-2936.
17. Lista F, Faggioni G, Valjevac S, Ciammaruconi A, Vaissaire J, le Doujet C, Gorge O, de Santis R, Carattoli A, Ciervo A, Fasanella A, Orsini F, D'Amelio R, Pourcel C, Cassone A, Vergnaud G. Genotyping of Bacillus anthracis strains based on automated capillary. BMC Microbiology 2006, 6:6-33. 10.1186/1471-2180-6-33, 1403785, 16448556.
18. Fouet A, Smith KL, Keys C, Vaissaire J, Le Doujet C, Lévy M, Mock M, Keim P. Diversity Among French Bacillus anthracis Isolates. J Clin Microbiol 2002, 40:4732-4734. 10.1128/JCM.40.12.4732-4734.2002, 154597, 12454180.
19. Gierczynski R, Jakubczak A, Jagielski M. Extended multiple-locus variable tandem-repeat analysis of Bacillus anthracis isolated in Poland. Pol J Microbiol 2009, 58(1):3-7.
20. Van Ert M, Easterday WR, Huynh LY, Okinaka RT, Hugh-Jones ME, Ravel J, Zanecki SR, Pearson T, Simonson TS, U'Ren JM, Kachur SM, Leadem-Dougherty RR, Rhoton SD, Zinser G, Farlow J, Coker PR, Smith KL, Wang B, Kenefic LJ, Fraser-Liggett CM, Wagner DM, Keim P. Global Genetic Population Structure of Bacillus anthracis. PlosOne 2007, 5:461-471.
21. Pearson T, Busch JD, Ravel J, Read TD, Rhoton SD, U'Ren JM, Simonson TS, Kachur SM, Leadem RR, Cardon ML, Van Ert MN, Huynh LY, Fraser CM, Keim P. Phylogenetic discovery bias in Bacillus anthracis using single-nucleotide polymorphisms from whole-genome sequencing. Procl Nat Acad Sci USA 2004, 101(37):13536-41.
22. Read TD, Salzberg SL, Pop M, Shumway M, Umayam L, Jiang L, Holtzapple E, Busch JD, Smith KL, Schupp JM, Solomon D, Keim P, Fraser CM. Comparative genome sequencing for discovery of novel polymorphisms in. Bacillus anthracis 2002, 296(5575):2028-33.
23. Stratilo CW, Lewis CT, Bryden L, Mulvey MR, Bader D. Single-nucleotide repeat analysis for subtyping Bacillus anthracis. J Clin Microbiol 2006, 44(3):777-8. 10.1128/JCM.44.3.777-782.2006, 1393151, 16517854.
24. Kenefic LJ, Beaudry J, Trim C, Huynh L, Zanecki S, Matthews M, Schupp J, Van Ert M, Keim P. A high resolution four-locus multiplex single nucleotide repeat (SNR) genotyping system in Bacillus anthracis. J Microbiol Methods 2008, 73(3):269-72. 10.1016/j.mimet.2007.11.014, 18237793.