Genetic analysis for virulence factors in Escherichia coli O104:H21 that was implicated in an outbreak of hemorrhagic colitis

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作者
Feng, P
Weagant, SD
Monday, SR
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[1] US FDA, Div Microbiol Studies, Washington, DC 20204 USA
[2] US FDA, Pacific Reg Lab, Bothell, WA 98041 USA
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10.1128/JCM.39.1.24-28.2001
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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Isolates of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) of serotype O104:H21 implicated in a 1994 outbreak of hemorrhagic colitis in Montana were analyzed for the presence of trait EHEC virulence markers. By using a multiples PCR that specifically amplifies several genes, the O101:H21 strains were found to carry only the Shiga toxin 2 gene (stx2) and to express Stx2. They did not have the caeA gene for gamma -intimin, which is typically found in O157:H7, or the (alpha- or beta -intimin derivatives, which are common in other EHEC and enteropathogenic E. coli serotypes. Results of the multiplex PCR also indicated that the ehxA gene for enterohemolysin was absent from O104:H21. This, however, was not consistent with the results of a phenotypic assay that showed them to be hemolytic or a PCR analysis with another set of ehxA-specific primers, which indicated the presence of ehxA. To resolve this discrepancy, the ehxA region in O103:H21 and O157:H7 strains, to which the multiples PCR primers anneal, was cloned and sequenced. Comparison of the sequences showed that the upstream primer binding site in the ehxA gene of O104:H21 was not identical to that of O157:H7. Specifically, there were several base mutations, including an A-to-G substitution at the 3' end of the primer binding site. These base mutations are presumably not unique to O104:H21, since other enterohemolytic serotypes were also not detected with the ehxA primers used in the multiples PCR Comparison of the ehxA sequences of O104:H21 strains with those of other Stx-producing E. coli strains showed that they more closely resembled those of O8:H19 strains, which have cluster II ehxA genes, than those of O157:H7 strains, which have cluster I ehxA sequences. By modifying the upstream ehxA primer, the multiplex PCR was able to detect ehxA genes in both O157:H7 and O104:H21 strains.
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