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PLoS Negl Trop Dis ; 5(7): e1248, 2011 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21811647

ABSTRACT

Bartonella bacilliformis is the aetiological agent of human bartonellosis, a potentially life threatening infection of significant public health concern in the Andean region of South America. Human bartonellosis has long been recognised in the region but a recent upsurge in the number of cases of the disease and an apparent expansion of its geographical distribution have re-emphasized its contemporary medical importance. Here, we describe the development of a multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for B. bacilliformis and its application to an archive of 43 isolates collected from patients across Peru. MLST identified eight sequence types among these isolates and the delineation of these was generally congruent with those of the previously described typing scheme. Phylogenetic analysis based on concatenated sequence data derived from MLST loci revealed that seven of the eight sequence types were closely related to one another; however, one sequence type, ST8, exhibited profound evolutionary divergence from the others. The extent of this divergence was akin to that observed between other members of the Bartonella genus, suggesting that ST8 strains may be better considered as members of a novel Bartonella genospecies.


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Bartonella Infections/microbiology , Bartonella bacilliformis/genetics , Multilocus Sequence Typing/methods , Adolescent , Adult , Bartonella Infections/epidemiology , Bartonella bacilliformis/isolation & purification , Child , Child, Preschool , Cluster Analysis , DNA, Bacterial/analysis , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Middle Aged , Molecular Epidemiology , Peru/epidemiology , Phylogeny , Retrospective Studies
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J Clin Microbiol ; 49(6): 2132-7, 2011 Jun.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21471345

ABSTRACT

Bartonella henselae is one of the most common zoonotic agents acquired from companion animals (cats) in industrialized countries. Nonetheless, although the prevalence of infections in cats is high, the number of human cases reported is relatively low. One hypothesis for this discrepancy is that B. henselae strains vary in their zoonotic potential. To test this hypothesis, we employed structured sampling to explore the population structure of B. henselae in the United Kingdom and to determine the distribution of strains associated with zoonotic disease within this structure. A total of 118 B. henselae strains were delineated into 12 sequence types (STs) using multilocus sequence typing. We observed that most (85%) of the zoonosis-associated strains belonged to only three genotypes, i.e., ST2, ST5, and ST8. Conversely, most (74%) of the feline isolates belonged to ST4, ST6, and ST7. The difference in host association of ST2, ST5, and ST8 (zoonosis associated) and ST6 (feline) was statistically significant (P < 0.05), indicating that a few, uncommon STs were responsible for the majority of symptomatic human infections.


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Bacterial Typing Techniques , Bartonella henselae/classification , Bartonella henselae/genetics , Cat-Scratch Disease/epidemiology , Cat-Scratch Disease/microbiology , Zoonoses/epidemiology , Zoonoses/microbiology , Animals , Bartonella henselae/isolation & purification , Cats , Cluster Analysis , Genotype , Humans , Molecular Epidemiology , Multilocus Sequence Typing , United Kingdom/epidemiology
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