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J Vet Diagn Invest ; 24(5): 1014-6, 2012 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22826042

ABSTRACT

Diseases caused by extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) in wild felids are rarely reported. Although urinary tract infections are infrequently reported in domestic cats, such infections when present are commonly caused by ExPEC. The present work characterized ExPEC strains isolated from 2 adult felines, a snow leopard (Panthera uncia) and a black leopard (Panthera pardus melas), that died from secondary bacteremia associated with urinary tract infections. Isolates from both animals were classified into the B2 phylogenetic group and expressed virulence genotypes that allowed them to cause severe disease. In addition, strains from the black leopard showed multidrug resistance.


Subject(s)
Bacteremia/veterinary , Escherichia coli Infections/veterinary , Felidae , Urinary Tract Infections/veterinary , Animals , Animals, Zoo , Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use , Bacteremia/microbiology , Enrofloxacin , Escherichia coli Infections/microbiology , Fatal Outcome , Female , Fluoroquinolones/therapeutic use , Male , Urinary Tract Infections/drug therapy , Urinary Tract Infections/microbiology , Urinary Tract Infections/pathology
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Appl Environ Microbiol ; 75(23): 7399-408, 2009 Dec.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19801470

ABSTRACT

Forty-nine typical and atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strains belonging to different serotypes and isolated from humans, pets (cats and dogs), farm animals (bovines, sheep, and rabbits), and wild animals (monkeys) were investigated for virulence markers and clonal similarity by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST). The virulence markers analyzed revealed that atypical EPEC strains isolated from animals have the potential to cause diarrhea in humans. A close clonal relationship between human and animal isolates was found by MLST and PFGE. These results indicate that these animals act as atypical EPEC reservoirs and may represent sources of infection for humans. Since humans also act as a reservoir of atypical EPEC strains, the cycle of mutual infection of atypical EPEC between animals and humans, mainly pets and their owners, cannot be ruled out since the transmission dynamics between the reservoirs are not yet clearly understood.


Subject(s)
Animals, Domestic/microbiology , Animals, Wild/microbiology , Bacterial Typing Techniques , DNA Fingerprinting , DNA, Bacterial/genetics , Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli/classification , Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli/genetics , Animals , Brazil , Cluster Analysis , DNA, Bacterial/chemistry , Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field , Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli/isolation & purification , Escherichia coli Proteins/genetics , Genotype , Humans , Molecular Epidemiology , Molecular Sequence Data , Sequence Analysis, DNA , Serotyping , Virulence Factors/genetics
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FEMS Microbiol Lett ; 299(1): 22-30, 2009 Oct.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19702881

ABSTRACT

Atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (aEPEC) has been associated with infantile diarrhea in many countries. The clonal structure of aEPEC is the object of active investigation but few works have dealt with its genetic relationship with other diarrheagenic E. coli (DEC). This study aimed to evaluate the genetic relationship of aEPEC with other DEC pathotypes. The phylogenetic relationships of DEC strains were evaluated by multilocus sequence typing. Genetic diversity was assessed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). The phylogram showed that aEPEC strains were distributed in four major phylogenetic groups (A, B1, B2 and D). Cluster I (group B1) contains the majority of the strains and other pathotypes [enteroaggregative, enterotoxigenic and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)]; cluster II (group A) also contains enteroaggregative and diffusely adherent E. coli; cluster III (group B2) has atypical and typical EPEC possessing H6 or H34 antigen; and cluster IV (group D) contains aEPEC O55:H7 strains and EHEC O157:H7 strains. PFGE analysis confirmed that these strains encompass a great genetic diversity. These results indicate that aEPEC clonal groups have a particular genomic background--especially the strains of phylogenetic group B1--that probably made possible the acquisition and expression of virulence factors derived from non-EPEC pathotypes.


Subject(s)
Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli/genetics , Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli/isolation & purification , Escherichia coli Infections/microbiology , Escherichia coli Proteins/genetics , Genomics , Virulence Factors/genetics , Bacterial Typing Techniques , Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli/classification , Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli/metabolism , Escherichia coli Proteins/metabolism , Humans , Molecular Sequence Data , Multilocus Sequence Typing , Phylogeny , Virulence Factors/metabolism
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J Clin Microbiol ; 41(3): 1225-34, 2003 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12624055

ABSTRACT

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) has been associated with infantile diarrhea and mortality in humans in developing countries. While diarrhea is also a major problem among primates kept in captivity, the role of E. coli is unclear. This study was designed to characterize diarrheagenic E. coli recovered from the feces of 56 New World nonhuman primates, primarily marmosets (Callithrix spp.). Seventeen of the 56 primates had signs of diarrhea and/or enteritis. E. coli recovered from feces from these animals was tested by PCR for genes encoding virulence factors of diarrheagenic E. coli and for patterns of adherence to HeLa cells. In addition, isolates were characterized by the fluorescence actin staining test and by their ability to induce attaching and effacing lesions. PCR for the eae gene was positive in 10 of the 39 (27%) apparently healthy animals and in 8 of the 17 (47%) animals with diarrhea and/or enteritis. Colonies of eae(+) E. coli were serotyped and examined by PCR for genes encoding EPEC virulence markers. The eae(+) E. coli isolates recovered from both healthy and sick nonhuman primates demonstrated virulence-associated attributes similar to those of EPEC strains implicated in human disease and are designated monkey EPEC. The results presented here indicate that EPEC may be a significant pathogen for nonhuman primates, deserving further investigation. The similarities between the affected animals investigated in this study and human EPEC infections suggest that marmosets may represent an important model for EPEC in humans.


Subject(s)
Diarrhea/microbiology , Escherichia coli/classification , Actins/metabolism , Animals , Bacterial Adhesion , Diarrhea/pathology , Disease Models, Animal , Escherichia coli/isolation & purification , Female , Haplorhini , Humans , Male , Serotyping , Species Specificity , Virulence Factors/analysis
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