Identification of genetic markers for differentiation of shiga toxin-producing, enteropathogenic, and avirulent strains of Escherichia coli O26

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2275-2281

  Bugarel, Marie ^a   Beutin, Lothar ^b   Scheutz, Flemming ^c   Loukiadis, Estelle ^d   Fach, Patrick ^a  

^a French Agency for Food   (France)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^c WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR EUROPE   (Denmark)

^d VETAGRO SUP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FOOD SAFETY; GENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; SIGNAL ENCODING; TOXIC MATERIALS;

CULTURAL METHODS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; MOLECULAR DETECTION; RESPIRATORY CONTROL; SHIGA TOXIN-PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPECIFIC DETECTION; TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; FOOD SAFETY; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; TOXIN; VIRULENCE;

ARCA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79953268569     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02832-10     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Beutin, L., et al. 2007. Identification of human-pathogenic strains of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli from food by a combination of serotyping and molecular typing of Shiga toxin genes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73: 4769-4775.
2. Bielaszewska, M., W. Zhang, A. Mellmann, and H. Karch., 2007. Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O26:H11/H-: a human pathogen in emergence. Berl. Munch. Tierarztl. Wochenschr. 120(7-8):279-287.
3. Bielaszewska, M., et al. 1996. Verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli in children with hemolytic uremic syndrome in the Czech Republic. Clin. Nephrol. 46:42-44.
4. Bielaszewska, M., et al. 2007. Shiga toxin-mediated hemolytic uremic syndrome: time to change the diagnostic paradigm? PLoS One 2:e1024.
5. Bielaszewska, M., et al. 2007. Shiga toxin gene loss and transfer in vitro and in vivo during enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O26 infection in humans. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 73:3144-3150.
6. Bielaszewska, M., et al. 2008. Shiga toxin-negative attaching and effacing Escherichia coli: distinct clinical associations with bacterial phylogeny and virulence traits and inferred in-host pathogen evolution. Clin. Infect. Dis. 47:208-217.
7. Blanco, J. E., et al. 2004. Serotypes, virulence genes, and intimin types of Shiga toxin (verotoxin)-producing Escherichia coli isolates from human patients: prevalence in Lugo, Spain, from 1992 through 1999. J. Clin. Microbiol. 42:311-319.
8. Brooks, J. T., et al. 2005. Non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections in the United States, 1983-2002. J. Infect. Dis. 192:1422-1429.
9. Bugarel, M., L. Beutin, and P. Fach. 2010. Low-density macroarray targeting non-locus of enterocyte effacement effectors (nle genes) and major virulence factors of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC): a new approach for molecular risk assessment of STEC isolates. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76:203-211.
10. Bugarel, M., L. Beutin, A. Martin, A. Gill, and P. Fach., 2010. Micro-array for the identification of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) seropathotypes associated with hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome in humans. Int. J. Food Microbiol. 142:318-329.
11. Burgos, Y. K., K. Pries, A. F. Pestana de Castro, and L. Beutin. 2009. Characterization of the alpha-haemolysin determinant from the human enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O26 plasmid pEO5. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 292:194-202.
12. Creuzburg, K., et al. 2011. Evolutionary analysis and distribution of type III effector genes in pathogenic Escherichia coli from human, animal and food sources. Environ. Microbiol. 13:439-452.
13. Eklund, M., F. Scheutz, and A. Siitonen. 2001. Clinical isolates of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli: serotypes, virulence characteristics, and molecular profiles of strains of the same serotype. J. Clin. Microbiol. 39:2829-2834.
14. Elliott, E. J., et al. 2001. Nationwide study of haemolytic uraemic syndrome: clinical, microbiological, and epidemiological features. Arch. Dis. Child. 85:125-131.
15. Ethelberg, S., et al. 2004. Virulence factors for hemolytic uremic syndrome, Denmark. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 10:842-847.
16. European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). 2007. Scientific opinion of the panel on biological hazards on a request from EFSA on monitoring of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) and identification of human pathogenic types. http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/579.pdf.
17. European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). 2009. Scientific report of EFSA: technical specifications for the monitoring and reporting of verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) on animals and food (VTEC surveys on animals and food). EFSA J. 7(11):1366. http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/s1366.pdf.
18. European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). 2009. The community summary report on trends and sources of zoonoses and zoonotic agents in the European Union in 2007. http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/doc/223r.pdf.
19. Friedrich, A. W., et al. 2002. Escherichia coli harboring Shiga toxin 2 gene variants: frequency and association with clinical symptoms. J. Infect. Dis. 185:74-84.
20. Gerber, A., H. Karch, F. Allerberger, H. M. Verweyen, and L. B. Zimmerhackl. 2002. Clinical course and the role of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infection in the hemolytic-uremic syndrome in pediatric patients, 1997-2000, in Germany and Austria: A prospective study. J. Infect. Dis. 186:493-500.
21. Geue, L., et al. 2009. Analysis of the clonal relationship of serotype O26:H11 enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli isolates from cattle. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75:6947-6953.
22. Gilmour, M. W., et al. 2005. Multilocus sequence typing of Escherichia coli O26:H11 isolates carrying stx in Canada does not identify genetic diversity. J. Clin. Microbiol. 43:5319-5323.
23. Hiramatsu, R., et al. 2002. Characterization of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O26 strains and establishment of selective isolation media for these strains. J. Clin. Microbiol. 40:922-925.
24. Hoshina, K., et al. 2001. Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O26 outbreak caused by contaminated natural water supplied by facility owned by local community. Jpn. J. Infect. Dis. 54:247-248.
25. Jelacic, J. K., et al. 2003. Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in Montana: bacterial genotypes and clinical profiles. J. Infect. Dis. 188:719-729.
26. Jenkins, C., J. Evans, H. Chart, G. A. Willshaw, and G. Frankel. 2008. Escherichia coli serogroup O26-a new look at an old adversary. J. Appl. Microbiol. 104:14-25.
27. Karch, H., P. I. Tarr, and M. Bielaszewska. 2005. Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli in human medicine. Int. J. Med. Microbiol. 295:405-418.
28. Konowalchuk, J., J. I. Speirs, and S. Stavric. 1977. Vero response to a cytotoxin of Escherichia coli. Infect. Immun. 18:775-779.
29. Kozub-Witkowski, E., et al. 2008. Serotypes and virutypes of enteropathogenic and enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli strains from stool samples of children with diarrhoea in Germany. J. Appl. Microbiol. 104:403-410.
30. Leomil, L., A. F. Pestana de Castro, G. Krause, H. Schmidt, and L. Beutin. 2005. Characterization of two major groups of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli O26 strains which are globally spread in human patients and domestic animals of different species. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 249:335-342.
31. Mead, P. S., et al. 1999. Food-related illness and death in the United States. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 5:607-625.
32. Mellmann, A., et al. 2008. Analysis of collection of hemolytic uremic syndrome- associated enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 14:1287-1290.
33. Miko, A., B. A. Lindstedt, L. T. Brandal, I. Lobersli, and L. Beutin. 2010. Evaluation of multiple-locus variable number of tandem-repeats analysis (MLVA) as a method for identification of clonal groups among enteropathogenic, enterohaemorrhagic and avirulent Escherichia coli O26 strains. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 303:137-146.
34. Miko, A., et al. 2009. Assessment of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolates from wildlife meat as potential pathogens for humans. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 75:6462-6470.
35. Nataro, J. P., and J. B. Kaper. 1998. Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 11:142-201.
36. O'Reilly, K. M., et al. 2010. Associations between the presence of virulence determinants and the epidemiology and ecology of zoonotic Escherichia coli. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 76:8110-8116.
37. Orskov, F. 1951. On the occurrence of E. coli belonging to O-group 26 in cases of infantile diarrhoea and white scours. Acta Pathol. Microbiol. Scand. 29:373-378.
38. Perelle, S., F. Dilasser, J. Grout, and P. Fach. 2004. Detection 5'-nuclease PCR of Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli O26, O55, O91, O103, O111, O113, O145 and O157:H7, associated with the world's most frequent clinical cases. Mol. Cell. Probes 18:185-192.
39. Rivas, M., et al. 2006. The case-control study group. Characterization and epidemiologic subtyping of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains isolated from hemolytic uremic syndrome and diarrhea cases in Argentina. Foodborne Pathog. Dis. 3:88-96.
40. Tarr, P. I., C. A. Gordon, and W. L. Chandler. 2005. Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli and the haemolytic uraemic syndrome. Lancet 365:1073-1086.
41. Tozzi, E., et al. 2003. Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections associated with hemolytic uremic syndrome in Italy 1988-2000. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 9:106-108.
42. Vaz, T. M. I., et al. 2004. Virulence properties and characteristics of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 1976 through 1999. J. Clin. Microbiol. 42:903-905.
43. Vlisidou, I., et al. 2006. Identification and characterization of EspK, a type III secreted effector protein of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157: H7. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 263:32-40.
44. Whittam, T. S., et al. 1993. Clonal relationships among Escherichia coli strains that cause hemorrhagic colitis and infantile diarrhea. Infect. Immun. 61:1619-1629.
45. Zweifel, C., et al. 2010. Characteristics of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli isolated from Swiss raw milk cheese within a 3-year monitoring program. J. Food Prot. 73:88-91.