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Development of a multilocus sequence typing scheme for molecular typing of mycoplasma pneumoniae

Brown, Rebecca, Holden, Matthew T. G., Spiller, Owen Bradley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9117-6911, Chalker, Victoria J. and Ledeboer, N. A. 2015. Development of a multilocus sequence typing scheme for molecular typing of mycoplasma pneumoniae. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 53 (10) , pp. 3195-3203. 10.1128/JCM.01301-15

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Abstract

Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a major human respiratory pathogen causing both upper and lower respiratory disease in humans of all ages, and it can also result in other serious extrapulmonary sequelae. A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for M. pneumoniae was developed based on the sequences of eight housekeeping genes (ppa, pgm, gyrB, gmk, glyA, atpA, arcC, and adk) and applied to 55 M. pneumoniae clinical isolates and the two type strains M129 and FH. A total of 12 sequence types (STs) resulted for 57 M. pneumoniae isolates tested, with a discriminatory index of 0.21 STs per isolate. The MLST loci used in this scheme were shown to be stable in 10 strains following 10 sequential subculture passages. Phylogenetic analysis of concatenated sequences of the eight loci indicated two distinct genetic clusters that were directly linked to multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) type. Genetic MLST clustering was confirmed by genomic sequence analysis, indicating that the MLST scheme developed in this study is representative of the genome. Furthermore, this MLST scheme was shown to be more discriminatory than both MLVA and P1 typing for the M. pneumoniae isolates examined, providing a method for further and more detailed analysis of observed epidemic peaks of M. pneumoniae infection. This scheme is supported by a public Web-based database (http://pubmlst.org/mpneumoniae).

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA)
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
ISSN: 0095-1137
Date of Acceptance: 14 July 2015
Last Modified: 31 Oct 2022 10:24
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/84751

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