淋球菌AFLP基因分型的初步研究

采用扩增片段长度多态性技术(AFLP)对奈瑟氏淋球菌菌株进行基因分型研究。以EcoRI和MesI酶切26株淋球菌临床分离株基因组,并进行AFLP分析。同一地区的淋球菌分离株之间存在相当大的DNA多态性。AFLP是鉴别淋球菌临床分离株有用而敏感的基因分型技术,有助于了解流行淋球菌菌株的来源、流行菌株之间的克隆相关性,以及抗生素耐药性菌株的传播情况。     

全耐药鲍曼不动杆菌分子分型和分子流行病学调查

重复片段引物PCR和随机扩增多态性DNA(RAPD)技术对临床分离全耐药不动杆菌分子分型,并进行流行病学调查.从ICU病房感染多重耐药不动杆菌患者的标本分离不动杆菌,碱裂解法提取全基因组,重复片段引物PCR(Rep-PCR)和随机引物扩增(RAPD),对8株临床分离的全耐药菌基因分型,并与生物学分型和质粒分型比较,调查医院流行全耐药菌的基因型.结果显示,8株分离菌经两对重复片段引物分型可分为6种和4种基因型,经随机引物分型为4种和3种基因型,经质粒分型可分为2种基因型,生物学分型归属为1种表型.PCR方法用于全耐药不动杆菌分子分型简便易行,重复性好,适合医院感染流行病学调查,本医院同一部门出现多种基因型,各科室间不存在交叉传染.     

铜绿假单胞菌随机扩增多态性DNA分子流行病学研究

目的了解医院感染的铜绿假单胞菌(Pa)的基因分型情况,为临床及时提供流行病学资料。方法采用随机扩增多态性DNA(RAPD)基因分型方法对从住院患者临床标本中分离的21株Pa进行分析。结果21株Pa共得14型,分型率为100.0%;以周为时限,Pa医院感染爆发流行有2起。结论RAPD技术可快速、准确地监控医院感染的流行株。     

应用RAPD技术对我国不同地域红色毛癣菌分离株的遗传多样性研究

目的探讨我国不同地域红色毛癣菌分离株的遗传多样性。方法采用随机扩增DNA多态性(RAPD)方法对来源于我国不同地域(江苏南京,山东济南,广东广州)的32株红色毛癣菌临床分离株进行DNA多态性分析。结果红色毛癣菌种内差异明显,根据遗传相似性分成三大聚类群,与地域差异及取材部位无明显相关性,而与表型具有一定相关性。结论随机扩增DNA多态性方法可用于红色毛癣菌的DNA分型,其DNA带型具有一定的遗传变异性,与菌株表型有一定关系,与地域差异、侵犯部位无明显相关性。     

广州市公共场所中央空调冷却塔水中军团菌mip基因分型

【目的】研究广州市公共场所中央空调冷却塔水中军团菌的基因特征和优势型别。【方法】采用军团菌巨噬细胞感染力增强因子(Macrophage infectivity potentiator,mip)基因分型方法。提取广州市2008-2010年分离的140株(119株嗜肺,21株非嗜肺)军团菌基因组DNA,针对mip基因进行PCR扩增并测序,将核苷酸序列上传至欧洲军团菌感染工作组(EWGLI)数据库进行比对,得到mip型别,并构建系统发育进化树。【结果】140株军团菌均可扩增出700 bp左右的目的条带。119株嗜肺军团菌分为10个mip型别,L.pneumophila-phil-1为优势型别,占52.9%(63/119);21株非嗜肺军团菌分为6个mip型别,L.feeleii-D3131为优势型别,占47.6%(10/21)。【结论】广州市公共场所中央空调冷却塔水中军团菌具有多样性,mip分型技术可用于军团菌的快速基因分型。     

嗜肺军团菌分子检测最新进展

嗜肺军团菌是军团病最主要的致病原,在人工水体或空调冷却系统中多有存在,是影响公众健康的一大隐患。能否准确高效地检测嗜肺军团菌,对军团病的防控具有重要意义。分子生物学技术多具有快速、简便、特异、灵敏等优点,近年越来越多地应用于嗜肺军团菌的检测。本文简要综述了嗜肺军团菌分子检测的最新进展,介绍了PCR及其衍生技术、核酸等温扩增技术、基因分型、探针杂交及其相关技术,以及新一代测序在嗜肺军团菌分子检测中的应用,并简单讨论了嗜肺军团菌检测存在的问题,对嗜肺军团菌分子检测的前景进行了展望。     

细菌分型方法研究进展

细菌分型是用于研究不同菌株之间关系的一种手段。对细菌进行分型,有助于病原菌和污染菌的定性和溯源,从而有助于监测传染病的暴发及监控食品污染的发生。近年来各种分型技术取得了长足发展,本文对目前常用的基于脉冲场凝胶电泳(PFGE)、限制性片段长度多态性(RFLP)、扩增片段长度多态性(AFLP)、随机扩增多态性DNA(RAPD)、规律成簇的间隔回文重复序列分型(CRISPR)、多位点序列分型(MLST)、全基因组测序分型(WGS)、基质辅助激光解吸电离飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF)等技术的细菌分型方法的原理、应用及优缺点进行了综述。     

0#柴油对斑马鱼基因组DNA和环境DNA遗传毒性的RAPD比较

研究利用随机扩增多态性DNA (Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA, RAPD)技术, 以斑马鱼基因组DNA和其养殖水体中的环境DNA (environmental DNA, eDNA)为模板, 检测0#柴油可溶性组分对斑马鱼(Danio rerio)遗传毒性的影响。结果显示, 通过基因组DNA和eDNA扩增的RAPD图谱均可检测到0#柴油对斑马鱼的遗传毒性。在未受到柴油暴露时, 斑马鱼基因组DNA和水环境中eDNA在96h内的RAPD图谱均无明显变化; 在不同浓度的柴油暴露下, 随着暴露时间(0、24h、48h、72h、96h)延长, 基因组DNA和eDNA的多态性位点减少, 模板稳定性降低; 随着柴油浓度(15%、50%、100%)的增加, 基因组DNA和eDNA的多态性位点也减少, 模板稳定性降低。这表明0#柴油对斑马鱼基因组DNA和eDNA的遗传毒性均呈现时间-效应和浓度-效应关系, 并且无论以斑马鱼基因组DNA还是eDNA为模板, 柴油暴露组和未进行暴露的对照组的RAPD扩增图谱条带变化趋势一致。研究结果为通过RAPD技术检测柴油对水生生物的遗传毒性提供了新的研究思路和技术手段。     

温室白粉虱SCAR分子鉴定技术的建立及应用

温室白粉虱Trialeurodes vaporariorum是为害我国蔬菜作物的重大害虫之一。本研究采用随机扩增多态性DNA(Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA,RAPD)技术对温室白粉虱进行研究,筛选出一条620bp的特异性片段(GenBank登录号为JQ690764),据此片段的测序结果设计一对特异性的序列特异性扩增区(Sequence characterized Amplified Region,SCAR)标记(Tv-F和Tv-R),可成功从室内饲养的和从不同地区田间采集的温室白粉虱的基因组DNA中扩增出一条412bp的特异性条带,而不能从供试的其他粉虱类害虫中扩增出该相应条带。单头温室白粉虱成虫的基因组DNA稀释1000倍时,该SCAR标记仍可成功扩增出预期条带,显示出极高的灵敏度。该SCAR标记对温室白粉虱的基因组DNA扩增重复性和稳定性好,且操作简便,灵敏度高,可用于样品的大规模检测,为田间温室白粉虱的快速识别鉴定及其有效防治提供了技术基础。     

不同倍性黄瓜遗传差异的AFLP分析

采用AFLP(Amplified fragment length polymorphism)技术对黄瓜(Cucumis sativusL.)品种‘津绿4号’的单倍体、二倍体和四倍体进行基因组DNA多态性比较。结果表明:(1)从35对引物扩增获得2 188条60~500 bp的条带,多态性位点仅有20个,占0.92%,其中22对引物组合扩增的不同倍性材料的AFLP指纹没有明显差异;(2)在多态性位点表现中,以二倍体的条带存在,单倍体和(或)四倍体的条带丢失为主,在四倍体中扩增出1条特异带;(3)与相应的二倍体相比,单倍体和四倍体有特异片段的消失和增加。     

Clonal relations among Salmonella enteritidis phage type 3 outbreak isolates traced by DNA fingerprinting.

Isolates of Salmonella enteritidis PT3, a rare phage type, were recovered from patients and strains were isolated from an outbreak of gastroenteritis that occurred during the summer of 1997 in North-East Sardinia, Italy. To investigate possible clonal involvement in the outbreak and to evaluate the capacity to discriminate among S. enteritidis PT3 strains, a number of molecular typing methods including ribotyping with a mixture of PstI and SphI (PS-ribotyping), PFGE with endonuclease XbaI and RAPD typing with four arbitrary primers was used. The typical XbaI endonuclease generated PFGE pattern also explained the prevalence of highly clonal S. enteritidis PT3 strains in the outbreak and adjacent areas. RAPD fingerprinting with primers OPA 4, OPB 15, OPB17 and P1254 exhibited a single but unique RAPD profile among the outbreak strains from various sources that differed significantly from control strains. The results of this study showed that when an appropriately chosen set of primers is employed, RAPD fingerprinting can be used as an alternative, rapid, highly reproducible technique for tracing the clonal relations of S. enteritidis PT3, and can be more discriminatory than PFGE. Furthermore, this study revealed the possibility of PT3 causing outbreak.     

Serologic and genetic analysis of group B streptococci isolated from adult patients

Serologic and genetic typing with RAPD (Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA) method was used for epidemiologic analysis of GBS. 125 strains isolated from various clinical samples from adult patients were tested. In serologic typing seven serotypes have been found. Serotypes III and R were the most often encountered, containing 37,6% and 20,8% of samples. There was no dependence between serologic type and disease process. Optimalisation of RAPD reaction parameters was based on the standard strains of GBS. In the group of strains tested with the use of RAPD method, eleven genetic profiles were found, with prevalence of profile B (25,8%). Five other profiles occured with similar frequency (8,8% - 12,8%). Among streptococci isolated from patients with the infection of genitourinary tract, great differentiation in the genetic profiles of the strains has been found. Each serologic type contained various genetic profiles. Genetic variety showed by RAPD method indicates the raised ability of this technique to find differences among isolates of GBS.     

湖北地区暴发病池塘中嗜水气单胞菌的遗传多样性和毒力特征研究

为了调查引起鱼类运动型气单胞菌败血症(俗称暴发病)的嗜水气单胞菌的遗传多样性和毒力特征, 阐明其流行规律, 研究于2006-2009年度从湖北省内3个不同地区的6个发病鱼塘中分离了30株嗜水气单胞菌, 其中20株为临床株(分离自血液、肝脏、肾脏或腹水), 6株为肠道株, 4株为池水株。基于所有菌株gyrB基因序列, 构建了系统发育树; 通过ERIC (Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus, 肠道细菌基因间重复序列)指纹图谱进行菌株的遗传分型; 用PCR方法检测了7个毒力基因在菌株中的分布模式。这7个基因包括气溶素(aerA)、溶血素(hlyA)、热不稳定性细胞兴奋性肠毒素(alt)、热稳定性细胞兴奋性肠毒素(ast)、弹性蛋白酶(ahpB)、脂酶(lip)和鞭毛基因(fla)。此外, 以斑马鱼为感染对象, 通过腹腔注射测定了15株代表菌株的毒力。结果表明: 不同来源的20株临床株、1株肠道株和3株池水株具有相同的遗传特性, 体现为在系统树上聚为一枝, 序列相似性为100%, 具有相同的ERIC指纹图谱, 毒力基因分布模式为: aerA+hlyA+alt+ast+ahpB+lip+fla+, 且均为强毒株(LD50 9.74104cfu/尾)。与临床株相比, 其余5株肠道株和1株池水株或具有不同的ERIC指纹图谱或具有不同的毒力基因分布模式, 显示出了遗传多样性, 且毒力均弱于临床株(LD501.01106cfu/尾)。这说明在一定时间、一定区域内, 作为暴发病病原的嗜水气单胞菌为同一克隆系在流行, 不存在明显的变异或遗传多样性。此结果有助于阐明嗜水气单胞菌引起的暴发病的流行规律, 制定相应的防御措施。多种毒力基因在致病性菌株中的联合流行为发病机理的解析奠定了基础。此外, 鉴于毒力基因谱与致病性之间的相关性, 表明毒力基因可作为标记基因, 用于致病性菌株的检测。       

Characterization of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolated at the Policlinico Hospital of Bari (Italy)

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an emerging problem. We studied 71 MRSA strains for the presence of mecA gene by PCR, for the enterotoxins production and susceptibility to antimicrobials. In addition, the suitability of Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA analysis (RAPD) and Hypervariable Region (HVR)--PCR as molecular tools for typing MRSA was also tested. All the 71 strains previously found MRSA with conventional methods, presented the gene mec A. By molecular typing five distinct amplicons were found. MRSA with two DRUS were the most common type. RAPD analysis clustered MRSA in 8 groups, three of which were the most common. 26.8% of MRSA produce enterotoxins with a prevalence of type A. MRSA exhibited resistance to all quinolones tested and to gentamycin. Our data suggest that a typing method based on RAPD combined with HVR-PCR may be useful to compare MRSA isolated in a hospital environment, whereas PFGE may be used for further analysis.     

金黄色葡萄球菌的耐药性分析及基因分型研究

目的通过分析上海地区院内分离金黄色葡萄球菌的药敏谱型及对耐甲氧西林的金黄色葡萄球菌（MRSA）进行基因谱型的研究,了解金黄色葡萄球菌的院内流行状况。方法对临床分离出的43株金黄色葡萄球菌进行药敏试验和SCCmec基因盒的多重PCR检测,并将结果整合后用MEGA3．1软件分析其进化相关关系。结果药敏结果显示43株金葡菌对青霉素和甲氧西林的耐药率最高。甲氧西林的耐药率达到62．8％。MecA阳性菌株SCCmec的分型显示均为Ⅱ型或Ⅲ型,且所占比例相近,未见Ⅰ型和Ⅳ型。进化树分析发现了在同一医院中亲缘关系相近的菌株,为院内感染流行株。结论MecA基因介导的MRSA在分离菌株中所占比例高,存在院内感染爆发性流行。     

Genomic Characterization of a Large Outbreak of Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 Strains in Quebec City, 2012

During the summer of 2012, a major Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 outbreak occurred in Quebec City, Canada, which caused 182 declared cases of Legionnaire''s disease and included 13 fatalities. Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 isolates from 23 patients as well as from 32 cooling towers located in the vicinity of the outbreak were recovered for analysis. In addition, 6 isolates from the 1996 Quebec City outbreak and 4 isolates from patients unrelated to both outbreaks were added to allow comparison. We characterized the isolates using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, sequence-based typing, and whole genome sequencing. The comparison of patients-isolated strains to cooling tower isolates allowed the identification of the tower that was the source of the outbreak. Legionella pneumophila strain Quebec 2012 was identified as a ST-62 by sequence-based typing methodology. Two new Legionellaceae plasmids were found only in the epidemic strain. The LVH type IV secretion system was found in the 2012 outbreak isolates but not in the ones from the 1996 outbreak and only in half of the contemporary human isolates. The epidemic strains replicated more efficiently and were more cytotoxic to human macrophages than the environmental strains tested. At least four Icm/Dot effectors in the epidemic strains were absent in the environmental strains suggesting that some effectors could impact the intracellular replication in human macrophages. Sequence-based typing and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis combined with whole genome sequencing allowed the identification and the analysis of the causative strain including its likely environmental source.     

The value of pyrolysis mass spectrometry to investigate nosocomial outbreaks caused by Serratia marcescens

Simultaneous outbreaks of S. marcescens infection going on in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Surgical Department of the same hospital were investigated by pyrolysis mass spectrometry (PyMS). The PyMS analysis of the strains clearly demonstrated that the two outbreaks were caused by different strains. The 14 S. marcescens isolates from the first outbreak were closely related, with the exception of one environmental isolate, which did not harbour the ESBL plasmid, which was present in all other isolates. However, the phage type of all 14 isolates was the same. Among the 9 S. marcescens isolates from the second outbreak, PyMS clearly distinguished 3 that exhibited gentamicin resistance from the remaining 6 gentamicin-susceptible isolates. Phage typing was unhelpful in this case, as none of the isolates were typable. The PyMS typing of nosocomial outbreak strains can reach the level of discrimination approaching that achieved by molecular genetic analysis.     

Rapid MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Strain Typing during a Large Outbreak of Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli

Background

In 2011 northern Germany experienced a large outbreak of Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli O104:H4. The large amount of samples sent to microbiology laboratories for epidemiological assessment highlighted the importance of fast and inexpensive typing procedures. We have therefore evaluated the applicability of a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry based strategy for outbreak strain identification.

Methods

Specific peaks in the outbreak strain’s spectrum were identified by comparative analysis of archived pre-outbreak spectra that had been acquired for routine species-level identification. Proteins underlying these discriminatory peaks were identified by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry and validated against publicly available databases. The resulting typing scheme was evaluated against PCR genotyping with 294 E. coli isolates from clinical samples collected during the outbreak.

Results

Comparative spectrum analysis revealed two characteristic peaks at m/z 6711 and m/z 10883. The underlying proteins were found to be of low prevalence among genome sequenced E. coli strains. Marker peak detection correctly classified 292 of 293 study isolates, including all 104 outbreak isolates.

Conclusions

MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry allowed for reliable outbreak strain identification during a large outbreak of Shiga-Toxigenic E. coli. The applied typing strategy could probably be adapted to other typing tasks and might facilitate epidemiological surveys as part of the routine pathogen identification workflow.     

Conventional and molecular approaches to isolates of Salmonella hadar from sporadic and epidemic cases

In September 1994 an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurred in 437 people who had consumed lunch in the canteen of a factory in Central Italy. Salmonella sp. was isolated from stools of 99 patients and in 73 of them Salmonella hadar was identified. This is the first outbreak caused by this serotype described in Italy. In order to examine the genotypic basis of the epidemic strains, molecular typing was applied to sporadic strains isolated before and after the outbreak episode. For this purpose phage type, resistance to antibiotics, DNA plasmid profile and sites of insertion of the mobile element of IS200 were determined. The epidemic strains were genetically distinct from the non-epidemic isolates; they were shown to be phage type 26, harbouring four small plasmids, were resistant to nalidixic acid and showed a unique characteristic IS200 fingerprint. The typing methods used in this study allowed the identification and discrimination of the outbreak strains from related isolates. They can thus be considered as a tool for epidemiological purposes. In addition we should point out the emerging resistance to nalidixic acid, largely used in veterinary medicine, in Salm . hadar .