2011-2012年杭州市肠道沙门菌临床分离株的分子型别分析

目的研究2011-2012年杭州市肠道沙门菌临床分离株的型别,了解本地菌株分子流行病学特征。方法对66株肠道沙门菌临床分离株进行血清分型和多位点序列分型(MLST)。对其中主要血清型:鼠伤寒、甲型副伤寒、萨雷甲尼和肠炎沙门菌菌株进行脉冲场凝胶电泳(PFGE)分型。结果分布于21个血清型的66株沙门菌分成26个ST型别。发现一株纽波特沙门菌为新型ST1690。菌株血清型与MLST型别数据库中所对应的血清型符合率为100.00%。9株甲型副伤寒沙门菌的PFGE带型完全一致(P7型),与先前杭州流行菌株有差异(P1-P6型)。6株肠炎沙门菌分成4个PFGE型,型间最小相似性为92.70%。13株鼠伤寒沙门菌分为11个PFGE型,型间最小相似性为71.70%。7株萨雷甲尼沙门菌分成4个PFGE型别,型间最小相似性为91.00%。结论近年杭州腹泻病人中流行的肠道沙门菌菌株主要血清型为鼠伤寒、甲型副伤寒、萨雷甲尼和肠炎等。甲型副伤寒沙门菌菌株在杭州出现了新PFGE型别。MLST数据可以对沙门菌血清学鉴定提供一定的帮助。     

A Comparison of Subtyping Methods for Differentiating Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis Isolates Obtained from Food and Human Sources

PurposeTo evaluate the abilities of these subtyping methods, we distinguished Salmonella Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) isolated from food products and human clinical samples between 2009 and 2010 in Seoul using five subtyping methods.MethodsWe determined the subtypes of 20 S. Enteritidis isolates from food and human sources using phage typing, antimicrobial susceptibility, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), repetitive sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR), and multilocus sequence typing (MLST).ResultsA total of 20 tested isolates were differentiated into six antimicrobial susceptibility patterns, three different phage types, four different PFGE profiles, seven rep-PCR patterns, and one MLST type. Food isolates were considerably more susceptible to antibiotics than human isolates. We were best able to discriminate among S. Enteritidis isolates using rep-PCR, and obtained the highest Simpson's diversity index of 0.82, whereas other methods produced indices that were less than 0.71. PFGE pattern appeared to be more related to antimicrobial resistance and phage types of S. Enteritidis isolates than rep-PCR. MLST revealed identical alleles in all isolates at all seven loci examined, indicating no resolution.ConclusionThe results of this study suggest that rep-PCR provided the best discriminatory power for phenotypically similar S. Enteritidis isolates of food and human origins, whereas the discriminatory ability of MLST may be problematic because of the high sequence conservation of the targeted genes.     

中国2000-2008年间甲型副伤寒沙门菌脉冲场凝胶电泳和多位点序列分析

目的 分析我国2000-2008年间甲型副伤寒沙门菌流行株的分子分型及病原进化上的特征.方法 应用以Spe Ⅰ为限制性内切酶的脉冲场凝胶电泳(pulsed-field gel electrophoresis,PFGE)方法 和基于9个管家基因位点(aroC、thrA、hisD、purE、sucA、dnaN、hemD、adk和purA)的多位点序列分析(multilocus sequence typing,MLST)分型方法 ,对我国2000-2008年间分离自10个地区的118株甲型副伤寒沙门菌流行株进行分析.结果 应用PFGE方法 将118株甲型副伤寒沙门菌分为32个型,其中包含5株以上的优势PFGE带型有5种.而应用MLST方法 ,所有菌株只分出了2个序列分型(sequence type,ST),各菌株的管家基因序列高度保守,呈现高度克隆化.结论 中国2000-2008年间甲型副伤寒沙门菌菌株应用MLST这种分型方法 很难区分,MLST不适于甲型副伤寒沙门菌的暴发调查和流行病学监测.目前中国的甲型副伤寒是由高度克隆化的菌株引起全国范围的扩散 流行.随着年份的变迁,也积累了散在的变异.     

Changes in antimicrobial resistance and molecular attributes of Salmonellae causing enteric fever in Kolkata,India, 2014–2018

Globally, enteric fever caused by Salmonella Typhi (S. Typhi, ST) and S. Paratyphi A (SPA) remain one of the major diseases of public health importance. In this study, a total of 457 (380 ST, 77 SPA) blood isolates were collected from three tertiary care hospitals in Kolkata during 2014–18. Additionally, 66 (3.4%) ST and 5 (0.25%) SPA were recovered from blood culture of 1962 patients attending OPD of one pediatric hospital during 2016–18. The study isolates were tested for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) profiles; AMR genes; molecular sub-types by PFGE, MLVA and CRISPR. Among the total 446 ST and 82 SPA isolates, fluoroquinolone (FQ) resistance was very common in both serovars. Ciprofloxacin resistance of 24.9% and 9.8% & ofloxacin resistance of 20.9% and 87.8% were found in ST and SPA respectively. Majority (>70%) of the isolates showed decreased susceptibility to ciprofloxacin (DCS). A single point mutation in gyrA gene (S83F) was responsible for causing DCS in 37.5% (n = 42/112) ST and 63% (n = 46/73) SPA isolates. Multidrug resistance (MDR) was found only in 3.4% ST isolates and encoded the genes bla_TEM-1, catA, sul, strA-strB, class 1 integron with dfrA7. All MDR ST (n = 15) possessed non-conjugative non-IncHI1 (180 kb) plasmid except one having conjugative IncHI1 (230 kb) plasmid and one without plasmid. The MDR genes were integrated near chromosomal cyaA gene site in ST with/without the presence of plasmid (nonIncH1). Almost 65.7% resistant ST belonged to H58 haplotype. PFGE showed clonally related isolates with 81% similarity in ST and 87% in SPA. Similarly, CRISPR typing showed less diversity among the isolates. However, the isolates (ST and SPA) were found to be more diverse by MLVA typing (D value 0.987 and 0.938). The study reports decrease in MDR and increase in FQ resistance among typhoidal Salmonella isolates over the years giving interesting information for enteric fever treatment.     

Characterization of Vibrio cholerae from 1986 to 2012 in Yunnan Province,southwest China bordering Myanmar

Vibrio cholerae is an important infectious pathogen causing serious human diarrhea. We analyzed 568 V. cholerae strains isolated from 1986 to 2012 in Yunnan province, southwest China bordering Myanmar. Polymerase chain reactions for detecting virulence genes, antibiotic susceptibility tests and pulse-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) were performed. The results showed all the strains were El Tor biotype from 1986. The ctxB subunit sequence analysis for all strains have shown that cholera between 1986 and 1995 was associated with mixed infections with El Tor and El Tor variants, while infections after 1996 were all caused by El Tor variant strains. All of the strains were sensitive to aminoglycosides and quinolone antibiotics while resistant to β-lactamase and carbapenem antibiotics increased gradually. 568 V. cholerae were divided into 218 PFGE-NotI patterns, and the isolates before 2001 and after 2011 were separated into two groups according to PFGE results. The strains isolated before 2001 were mainly referred to native cholera in Yunnan, and after 2011 were primarily referred to as imported strains from Myanmar, which showed the variation of V. cholerae in this area. The molecular characteristics of V. cholerae indicated regularity in bacterial variation and evolution in Yunnan province.     

A reliable combination method to identification and typing of epidemic and endemic clones among clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii

The multi-drug resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii as an important nosocomial pathogen has emerged a global health concern in recent years. In this study, we applied three easier, faster, and cost-effective methods including PCR-based open reading frames (ORFs) typing, sequence typing of bla_OXA-51-like and RAPD-PCR method to rapid typing of A. baumannii strains. Taken together in the present study the results of ORFs typing, PCR-sequencing of bla_OXA-51-like genes and MLST sequence typing revealed there was a high prevalence (62%, 35/57) of ST2 as international and successful clone which detected among clinical isolates of multi-drug resistant A. baumannii with ORF pattern B and bla_OXA-66 gene. Only 7% (4/57) of MDR isolates belonged to ST1 with ORF pattern A and bla_OXA-69 gene. Interestingly, we detected singleton ST513 (32%, 18/57) that encoded bla_OXA-90 and showed the ORF pattern H as previously isolated in Middle East. Moreover, our data showed RAPD-PCR method can detect divergent strains of the STs. The Cl-1, Cl-2, Cl-3, Cl-4, Cl-10, Cl-11, Cl-12, Cl-13 and Cl-14 belonged to ST2. While the Cl-6, Cl-7, Cl-8 and Cl-9 belonged to ST513. Only Cl-5 belonged to ST1. It seems that the combination of these methods have more discriminatory than any method separately and could be effectively applied to rapid detection of the clonal complex (CC) of A. baumannii strains without performing of MLST or PFGE.     

Bovine mastitis Staphylococcus aureus: Antibiotic susceptibility profile,resistance genes and molecular typing of methicillin-resistant and methicillin-sensitive strains in China

The emergence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection in dairy animals is of great concern for livestock and public health. The aim of present study was to detect new trends of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) towards antibiotic susceptibility, resistance genes and molecular typing by methods of disc diffusion, multiplex PCR assay and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). A total of 219 S. aureus strains were isolated from bovine mastitis cases from six provinces of China, including 34 MRSA strains. The results revealed that more than 70% isolated strains showed resistance to various antibiotics, and multiple-drugs resistance to more than five categories of antibiotics was found more common. The ermC was the most prevalent resistance gene, followed by other genes; however, ermA was the least frequently detected gene. Twenty-eight mecA-negative MRSA and six mecA-positive MRSA strains were detected, and in which three strains were ST97-MRSA-IV, others were ST965-MRSA-IV, ST6-MRSA-IV and ST9-MRSA-SCCmec-NT. The mecA-negative MRSA strains were found resistant to most of the antibiotics, and harbored aac(6′)/aph(2′′), aph(3′)-III and tetM genes higher than MSSA strains. The resistance to most of the antibiotics was significantly higher in MRSA than in MSSA strains. The MLST profiles showed that these strains mainly belonged to CC5, CC398, CC121 and CC50 lineage, especially within ST97 and ST398, while some novel sequence types (ST2154, ST2165 and ST2166) were identified and deposited in the MLST database. This indicates that the resistance of S. aureus is becoming more complicated by changes in multi-drug resistance mechanism and appearance of mecA-negative MRSA isolates, and importantly, MRSA-IV strains in different MLST types are emerging.     

Molecular epidemiology and virulence markers of Salmonella Infantis isolated over 25 years in São Paulo State,Brazil

Infection of humans and animals caused by Salmonella is a major public health problem worldwide. Among the more than 2500 serovars, S. Infantis has been one of the 15 most isolated serovars in the world. Despite its clinical importance, little is known about the molecular characteristics of S. Infantis strains from Brazil. The aims of this study were to type S. Infantis isolates of this country and to assess their pathogenic potential. The molecular epidemiology of 35 S. Infantis strains, isolated from human sources (25) and food items (10) between 1984 and 2009 in São Paulo State, Brazil, were investigated using ERIC-PCR, PFGE and MLST. Furthermore, the presence of some virulence markers from Salmonella pathogenicity islands (SPIs) SPI-1 and SPI-2 and from the virulence plasmid was assessed by PCR. Using ERIC-PCR, 34 S. Infantis strains exhibited a high genetic similarity (⩾93.7%) and using PFGE, 32 strains exhibited a similarity ⩾80.6%. Additionally, MLST showed a high clonal similarity among strains that all presented the same ST32. Thirty-two isolates under investigation contained the virulence markers invA, sopB, sopD, sipA, sipD, ssaR, sifA, flgK, fljB and flgL. In conclusion, the S. Infantis strains studied were genetically similar, suggesting that a prevalent subtype has been causing disease and food contamination during a 25 year period in São Paulo State, an important metropolitan region in Brazil. Furthermore, the contamination between strains from food items and sick humans indicates that better control measures for S. Infantis may be needed in this country.     

125株耐碳青霉烯类抗菌药物鲍氏不动杆菌多位点序列分型

目的了解医院耐碳青霉烯类鲍氏不动杆菌的遗传特征。方法选取耐碳青霉烯类鲍氏不动杆菌分离株,进行多位点序列分型(MLST)。结果选取的125株耐碳青霉烯类鲍氏不动杆菌,7个看家基因中6个等位基因数为1,gpi的等位基因数为3,可变位点数为3;125株菌MLST分析,3个ST型,其中ST 75型有82株,ST92型有20株,ST138型有23株,ST75、ST92与ST138属于同一克隆群。结论医院耐碳青霉烯类鲍氏不动杆菌相对进化较慢,对多种抗菌药物耐药,应严格消毒措施及无菌操作,减少由耐碳青霉烯类鲍氏不动杆菌引起的医院感染;减少抗菌药物的使用,减缓泛耐药菌的产生。     

贵州省动物性食品中沙门菌耐药及分子特征相关性研究

目的 了解贵州省动物性食品中沙门菌的耐药和分子型别特征及二者相关性,为我省食源性沙门菌感染及防控提供科学依据。方法 对贵州省9个市(州)2017—2021年市售动物性食品中分离的146株沙门菌进行血清学分型,采用微量肉汤稀释法测定菌株对15种抗生素的耐药性,脉冲场凝胶电泳(pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, PFGE)和多位点序列分型(multi-locus sequence typing, MLST)对菌株进行分子分型。结果 146株沙门菌分出27种血清型,以鼠伤寒(31/146,21.2%)、德尔卑(26/146,17.8%)、肠炎沙门菌(16/146,11.0%)为优势血清型。146株菌耐药率为79.5%(116/146),多重耐药率达60.3%(88/146),共有72种耐药谱。对氨苄西林、四环素耐药率分别达61%、64.4%。129株菌经PFGE共分出52个聚类76种带型,相似度在53.5%～100%,146株菌经MLST共检出29种ST型,以ST40(26/146,17.8%)、ST34(17/146,11.6%)、ST11(16/146、1...     

人源与动物源大肠埃希菌的同源性分析

目的研究某大规模养殖场与某院临床患者分离的大肠埃希菌的同源性。方法泰安地区某大规模养殖场分离出4株耐多粘菌素大肠埃希菌,泰安中心医院临床患者分离出12株耐碳青霉烯类大肠埃希菌;对目的菌株进行耐药基因测序,通过多位点序列分型(MLST)和脉冲场凝胶电泳(PFGE)进行同源性检测,探讨分析人源与鸭源大肠埃希菌的同源性。结果共有16株大肠埃希菌,4株鸭源菌株中2株ST为5912型;12株人源菌株中5株ST为167型,3株ST为405型;1株鸭源与1株人源ST相同,为ST10,但PFGE分型发现这2株菌相似度为64.7%。结论泰安地区人源与鸭源大肠埃希菌菌株同源性不高。     

青岛地区医院内感染耐甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌分子分型研究

目的 探讨青岛地区医院内感染的耐甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌(MRSA)分子流行病学特征及脉冲场凝胶电泳(PFGE)型别与菌株表型、一般临床资料间的关系.方法 收集2003-2007年间青岛地区主要医院内感染MRSA 360株,Sma Ⅰ酶切菌株染色体DNA后,进行PFGE电泳,用Bionumericus 2.0软件对电泳图谱进行比较和聚类分析,绘制进化树.同时对患者的性别、年龄、菌株来源等进行多变量统计分析.应用纸片扩散法测定分离菌株的药物敏感谱,并与PFGE型别进行比较分析.PCR扩增不同PFGE型别MRSA代表株25株分离株的7个管家基因进行序列测定和多位点测序分型分析(MLST).结果 所有菌株经PFGE电泳后共分为5型(M0～M4型),其中M1型为优势菌型,M2型次之,M4型相对少见,M0为独特型,明显不同于其他已知PFGE型别.统计学分析发现5种PFGE型别在患者性别、年龄分布上的差异无统计学意义,但在菌株分离部位、来源有统计学的差异:M2型多分离自伤口感染,而M3型菌株多来自ICU病房,5种PFGE型在不同医院间及医院内的分布存在差异.M1与M2两型构成各医院分离菌株的主要型别.抗生素敏感性测定中未发现万古霉素耐药菌株,亦未发现某种PFGE型别与某种特定抗生紊抗性之间的直接相关性.MIST分型发现优势型M1与M3共属于国内常见ST239型,M2型则归类于ST5,M4型属于ST240,独特型中的2种PFGE谱型则分属于ST45及ST398.结论 ST239菌株为青岛地区医院内感染MRSA优势菌株;医院内MRSA的PFGE分型与菌株来源明显相关,与患者年龄、性别无关,MRSA感染普遍存在于各年龄人群中.     

Genotyping of community-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in a tertiary care centre in Mysore,South India: ST2371-SCCmec IV emerges as the major clone

The burden of community-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is on the rise in population and clinical settings on account of the adaptability and virulence traits of this pathogen. We characterized 45 non-duplicate CA-MRSA strains implicated mainly in skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) in a tertiary care hospital in Mysore, South India. All the isolates were genotyped by staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) typing, staphylococcal protein A (spa) typing, accessory gene regulator (agr) typing, and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST). Four sequence types (STs) belonging to three major clonal complexes (CCs) were identified among the isolates: CC22 (ST2371 and ST22), CC1 (ST772) and CC8 (ST8). The majority (53.3%) of the isolates was of the genotype ST2371-t852-SCCmec IV [sequence type-spa type-SCCmec type], followed by ST22-t852-SCCmec IV (22.2%), ST772-t657-SCCmec V (13.3%) and ST8-t008-SCCmec IV (11.1%). ST237I, a single locus variant of ST22 (EMRSA-15 clone), has not been reported previously from any of the Asian countries. Our study also documents for the first time, the appearance of ST8-SCCmec IV (USA300) strains in India. Representative strains of the STs were further analyzed by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). agr typing detected type I or II alleles in the majority of the isolates. All the isolates were positive for the leukotoxin gene, pvl (Panton–Valentine leukocidin) and the staphylococcal enterotoxin gene cluster, egc. Interestingly, multidrug resistance (resistance to ⩾3 classes of non-beta-lactam antibiotics) was observed in 77.8% (n = 35) of the isolates. The highest (75.5%) resistance was recorded for ciprofloxacin, followed by erythromycin (53.3%), and quinupristin–dalfopristin (51.1%). Inducible clindamycin-resistance was identified in 37.7% of the isolates and it was attributed to the presence of erm(A), erm(C) and a combination of erm(A) and erm(C) genes. Isolates which showed a phenotypic pattern of M^R/L^S (macrolide-resistance/lincosamide-sensitivity) harbored the msr(A) gene. In conclusion, we report a high rate of multidrug resistance among Indian strains of CA-MRSA and the emergence of the lineages ST2371 and ST8 in India.     

MLST和PFGE在耐碳青霉烯类肺炎克雷伯菌医院感染监测中的应用

 目的 探讨某院重症监护病房(ICU)患者、医院环境中耐碳青霉烯类肺炎克雷伯菌(CRKP)菌株的同源性,为医院感染防控提供理论依据。方法 收集2017年9—12月某三甲医院ICU患者、环境中连续分离的CRKP菌株,进行耐药表型、碳青霉烯酶基因检测,采用多位点序列分型(MLST)和脉冲场凝胶电泳(PFGE)进行分子同源性分析。结果 共收集10株CRKP菌株,其中9株分离自5例患者的临床感染标本,1株分离自气压治疗仪面板。10株菌均携带产KPC酶基因;MLST分型均为ST11型;共有5种PFGE带型,其中5株带型完全一致,为流行菌株,1株菌株与流行菌株带型仅相差1条条带,其余4株菌带型相近,但与流行株带型差异较大。气压治疗仪面板分离的1株CRKP菌株与患者来源的4株CRKP菌株耐药表型、PFGE型别及ST型别完全一致,考虑为仪器共用造成的医院感染。分离自同一重症胰腺炎患者腹腔引流液、血标本的CRKP菌株PFGE带型完全一致,推测CRKP可能通过腹腔感染入血。结论 PFGE和MLST对明确医院感染细菌传播路径,个体细菌感染路径以及遗传变异有重要意义,有助于从切断感染途径方面入手指导控制多重耐药菌的传播。     

2008 - 2014年北京市山夫登堡沙门菌耐药性及分子流行病学特征分析

目的 分析北京市2008 - 2014年山夫登堡沙门菌临床分离株的分子流行病学特征。方法 对从腹泻病例分离到的91株山夫登堡沙门菌进行药敏试验、脉冲场凝胶电泳（PFGE）分子分型及多位点序列分型（MLST）。结果 2011 -2012年山夫登堡沙门菌在北京地区高水平流行,占所有分离株的87.9%,2008 - 2010年,2013 - 2104年各年份高度散发,病例主要集中在20～59岁成人组,5 - 6月为发病高峰;所有菌株对萘啶酸有较高耐药性（76.9%）,对磺胺异噁唑（53.9%）和链霉素（49.5%）中度耐药,对其他抗菌药物均较敏感;PFGE分型将91株腹泻株分成23种型别,形成三大克隆群,引起2011 - 2012年暴发流行的64株菌形成绝对优势克隆株;42株菌的MLST分型结果显示包括暴发流行在内的绝大多数菌株属于常见型ST14,5株散发菌株为新型ST1923。结论 北京市山夫登堡沙门菌具有明显的克隆株优势带型,引起2011 - 2012年的本地流行,对抗生素敏感性较高。     

Antimicrobial susceptibility, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and multi-locus sequence typing of Campylobacter coli in swine before, during, and after the slaughter process

The objective of this study was to determine persistence of clonal strains from farm to retail by assessing the clonal relatedness of Campylobacter coli isolated on farm, peri-harvest, and at processing from 11 individually identified pigs. Phenotypic (antimicrobial susceptibility) and genotypic (pulsed field gel electrophoresis [PFGE] and multi-locus sequence typing [MLST]) characterization of isolates was conducted. There was high genetic diversity of Campylobacter isolates from on-farm fecal samples. Campylobacter isolates from farm, post-evisceration, hide, and carcass samples showed similar phenotypes and belonged to the same genotypic clusters based on PFGE and sequence types (STs) based on MLST. Five STs that have not been previously reported were identified (ST-4083, ST-4084, ST-4085, ST-4086, ST-4087). Despite high genotypic diversity of C. coli on farm, retail meat products were consistently contaminated with isolates of the same STs, particularly ST854 and ST1056, as isolates collected from previous stages confirming persistence of strains from pre- to post-harvest.     

Characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae invasive serotype 19A isolates recovered in Colombia

The aim of this study was to determine the molecular characterization of invasive penicillin non-susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19A isolates, collected in Colombia between 1994 and 2012. A total of 115 isolates serotype 19A were analyzed. Genetic relationship of 80 isolates with minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) to penicillin ≥0.125 μg/was determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and selected strains were studied by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). Among the 115 isolates, resistance to penicillin in meningitis was 64.2%, in non-meningitis 32.2% were intermediate and 1.1% were high resistance. The most frequent sequence types were ST320 (33.7%), ST276 (21.5%), and ST1118 (11.2%). Five isolates were associated with the Spain^9V-ST156 clone, and two isolates were related to Colombia^23F-ST338 clone. S. pneumoniae serotype 19A increased in Colombia was associated with the spread of isolates genetically related to ST320 and ST276, and emergence of capsular variants of worldwide-disseminated clones.     

Emergence and spread of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii sequence type 191 in a Korean hospital

Emergence and spread of specific carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) clones cause a serious therapeutic problem. This study was aimed to investigate the clonal diversity and genetic basis of antimicrobial resistance among the 69 CRAB isolates from 2009 to 2010 in a Korean hospital. All CRAB isolates were found to be sequence type (ST) 2 using the Institute Pasteur’s multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme, but classified into two sequence groups and nine pulsotypes. Fifty-six CRAB isolates belonging to two main pulsotypes were found to be ST191 using the Bartual’s MLST scheme. All CRAB isolates showed an extensively drug-resistant phenotype. The bla_OXA-51/bla_OXA-23, bla_AmpC/bla_PER-1 and armA genes were largely responsible for resistance to carbapenems, extended-spectrum β-lactams and aminoglycosides, respectively. The first CRAB strains identified in 2005 in this hospital were found to be ST2 using the Institute Pasteur’s MLST scheme, but showed ST353 using the Bartual’s MLST scheme and different pulsotypes from the CRAB isolates from 2009 to 2010. In conclusion, this is the first report of emergence and spread of A. baumannii ST191 in Korea, as well of the genetic basis of its antimicrobial resistance.     

Molecular Typing and Epidemiology of Human Listeriosis Cases,Denmark, 2002–2012

Denmark has a high incidence of invasive listeriosis (0.9 cases/100,000 population in 2012). We analyzed patient data, clinical outcome, and trends in pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) of Listeria monocytogenes strains isolated in Denmark during 2002–2012. We performed 2-enzyme PFGE and serotyping on 559 isolates and MLST on 92 isolates and identified some correlation between molecular type and clinical outcome and patient characteristics. We found 178 different PFGE types, but isolates from 122 cases belonged to just 2 closely related PFGE types, clonal complex 8 and sequence type 8. These 2 types were the main cause of a peak in incidence of invasive listeriosis during 2005–2009, possibly representing an outbreak or the presence of a highly prevalent clone. However, current typing methods could not fully confirm these possibilities, highlighting the need for more refined discriminatory typing methods to identify outbreaks within frequently occurring L. monocytogenes PFGE types.     

Analysis of pulsed field gel electrophoresis profiles using multiple enzymes for predicting potential source reservoirs for strains of Salmonella Enteritidis and Salmonella Typhimurium isolated from humans

We reported previously on a highly discriminatory pulsed field gel electrophoresis-based (PFGE) subtyping scheme for Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis (SE) and Salmonella Typhimurium (ST) that relies on combined cluster analysis of up to six restriction enzymes. This approach allowed for the high-resolution separation of numerous poultry-derived SE and ST isolates into several distinct clusters that sorted along several geographical and host-linked boundaries. In this study, 101 SE and 151 ST strains isolated from poultry, swine, beef, mouse, and produce origins were combined with 62 human SE and ST isolates of unknown sources. PFGE profiles were generated across six restriction enzymes (XbaI, BlnI, SpeI, SfiI, PacI, and NotI) for human SE and ST isolates. The combined six-enzyme UPGMA trees of SE and ST revealed six separate origins of North American human SE isolates including one association with a “cosmopolitan” cluster of SEs from poultry originating in Scotland, Mexico, and China. In the case of ST, human isolates assorted readily along host lines rather than geographical partitions with the majority of human STs clustering in a larger group of STs of potential porcine origin. Such observations may underscore the ecological importance of poultry and pork reservoirs for SE and ST transmission to humans, respectively. In an examination of the relationship between enzyme diversity and congruence among enzymes, pairwise genetic diversity ranged from 6.5% to 9.7% for SE isolates and, more widely, from 17.5% to 27.4% for ST isolates. Phylogenetic congruence measures singled out XbaI, BlnI, and SfiI as most concordant for SE while XbaI and SfiI were most concordant among ST strains. Thus, these data provide the first proof of principal for concatenated PFGE, when coupled with sufficient enzyme numbers and combinations, as one effective means for predicting geographical and food source reservoirs for human isolates of these two highly prevalent Salmonella serovars.