Microevolution of Monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium during epidemic, United Kingdom, 2005-2010

Petrovska, Liljana, Mather, Alison E., AbuOun, Manal, Branchu, Priscilla, Harris, Simon R., Connor, Thomas Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2394-6504, Hopkins, K.L., Underwood, A., Lettini, Antonia A., Page, Andrew, Bagnall, Mary, Wain, John, Parkhill, Julian, Dougan, Gordon, Davies, Robert and Kingsley, Robert A. 2016. Microevolution of Monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium during epidemic, United Kingdom, 2005-2010. Emerging infectious diseases 22 (4) , 617. 10.3201/eid2204.150531

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

Microevolution associated with emergence and expansion of new epidemic clones of bacterial pathogens holds the key to epidemiologic success. To determine microevolution associated with monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium during an epidemic, we performed comparative whole-genome sequencing and phylogenomic analysis of isolates from the United Kingdom and Italy during 2005–2012. These isolates formed a single clade distinct from recent monophasic epidemic clones previously described from North America and Spain. The UK monophasic epidemic clones showed a novel genomic island encoding resistance to heavy metals and a composite transposon encoding antimicrobial drug resistance genes not present in other Salmonella Typhimurium isolates, which may have contributed to epidemiologic success. A remarkable amount of genotypic variation accumulated during clonal expansion that occurred during the epidemic, including multiple independent acquisitions of a novel prophage carrying the sopE gene and multiple deletion events affecting the phase II flagellin locus. This high level of microevolution may affect antigenicity, pathogenicity, and transmission.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Subjects:	Q Science > QR Microbiology Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR355 Virology
Publisher:	National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC
ISSN:	1080-6040
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2022 09:36
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/88604

Citation Data

Cited 110 times in Scopus. View in Scopus. Powered By Scopus® Data

Actions (repository staff only)

Edit Item