| Literature DB >> 25900650 |
David C Klinzing1, Seon Young Choi, Nur A Hasan, Ronald R Matias1, Enrique Tayag2, Josefina Geronimo3, Evan Skowronski4, Shah M Rashed5, Kent Kawashima1, C Nicole Rosenzweig6, Henry S Gibbons6, Brian C Torres1, Veni Liles1, Alicia C Alfon1, Maria Luisa Juan1, Filipinas F Natividad1, Thomas A Cebula7, Rita R Colwell8.
Abstract
UNLABELLED: Cholera continues to be a global threat, with high rates of morbidity and mortality. In 2011, a cholera outbreak occurred in Palawan, Philippines, affecting more than 500 people, and 20 individuals died. Vibrio cholerae O1 was confirmed as the etiological agent. Source attribution is critical in cholera outbreaks for proper management of the disease, as well as to control spread. In this study, three V. cholerae O1 isolates from a Philippines cholera outbreak were sequenced and their genomes analyzed to determine phylogenetic relatedness to V. cholerae O1 isolates from recent outbreaks of cholera elsewhere. The Philippines V. cholerae O1 isolates were determined to be V. cholerae O1 hybrid El Tor belonging to the seventh-pandemic clade. They clustered tightly, forming a monophyletic clade closely related to V. cholerae O1 hybrid El Tor from Asia and Africa. The isolates possess a unique multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) genotype (12-7-9-18-25 and 12-7-10-14-21) and lack SXT. In addition, they possess a novel 15-kb genomic island (GI-119) containing a predicted type I restriction-modification system. The CTXΦ-RS1 array of the Philippines isolates was similar to that of V. cholerae O1 MG116926, a hybrid El Tor strain isolated in Bangladesh in 1991. Overall, the data indicate that the Philippines V. cholerae O1 isolates are unique, differing from recent V. cholerae O1 isolates from Asia, Africa, and Haiti. Furthermore, the results of this study support the hypothesis that the Philippines isolates of V. cholerae O1 are indigenous and exist locally in the aquatic ecosystem of the Philippines. IMPORTANCE: Genetic characterization and phylogenomics analysis of outbreak strains have proven to be critical for probing clonal relatedness to strains isolated in different geographical regions and over time. Recently, extensive genetic analyses of V. cholerae O1 strains isolated in different countries have been done. However, genome sequences of V. cholerae O1 isolates from the Philippines have not been available for epidemiological investigation. In this study, molecular typing and phylogenetic analysis of Vibrio cholerae isolated from both clinical and environmental samples in 2011 confirmed unique genetic features of the Philippines isolates, which are helpful to understand the global epidemiology of cholera.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25900650 PMCID: PMC4453562 DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00047-15
Source DB: PubMed Journal: MBio Impact factor: 7.867
FIG 1 CTXΦ-RS1 array of Philippines V. cholerae isolates (PhRBD_Vc311, PhRBD_Vc326, and PhRBD_VcEnv) with El Tor (N16961), classical (O395), and hybrid El Tor (MJ1236 and MG116926) strains. Philippines isolates carry two copies of the RS1 element and TLC (toxin-linked cryptic plasmid) on the large chromosome (Chr I) and two copies of CTXΦ on the small chromosome (Chr II), similar to MG116926.
Sites of nucleotide polymorphism in CTX prophages
| Strain | Prophage | Nucleotide at position in gene | No. of heptamers in | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 162 | 183 | 258 | 345 | 516 | 540 | 579 | 609 | 774 | 77-79 | 90 | 96 | 108 | 192 | 288 | 291 | 1057 | |||||
| N16961 | CTXET | ET | C | C | C | G | G | G | A | T | T | C | GTA | A | T | G | A | A | C | C | 4 | |
| O395 | CTXCL | CL | T | T | A | C | T | A | G | C | C | T | – | T | C | . | . | G | T | . | 7 | |
| MJ1236 | CTXHyb | CL | T | T | A | C | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 4 | |
| HCO1 | CTXHyb | CL | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | – | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 5 | |
| PhRBD_Vc326 | CTXHyb | CL | T | T | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | T | 4 | |
| PhRBD_Vc311 | CTXHyb | CL | T | . | A | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | T | 4 | |
| PhRBD_VcEnv | CTXHyb | CL | T | T | A | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | T | 4 | |
ET, El Tor type; CL, classical type; Hyb, hybrid.
Dots indicate sequence identical to that of V. cholerae N16961; dashes indicate deletions.
Number of ToxR-binding site repeats.
FIG 2 (A) Philippines V. cholerae isolates (PhRBD_Vc311, PhRBD_Vc326, and PhRBD_VcEnv) and a V. cholerae O139 strain (MO10) possessing a major truncation in the VPI-2 region compared to seventh-pandemic prototype El Tor (N16961). (B) A new genomic island (GI-119) encoding a type I restriction-modification system is present between VC0081 and VC0080 in Philippines V. cholerae isolates.
FIG 3 Neighbor-joining trees showing phylogenetic relationships of 78 V. cholerae genomes based on 1,051 orthologs of protein-coding genes (~1,054,653 bp). Philippines V. cholerae O1 strains are in blue, showing a tight clustering in a monophyletic clade.