TY - JOUR
T1 - Zoonotic potential of the Clostridium difficile RT078 family in Taiwan
AU - Tsai, Bo Yang
AU - Ko, Wen Chien
AU - Chen, Ter Hsin
AU - Wu, Ying Chen
AU - Lan, Po Han
AU - Chen, Yi Hsuan
AU - Hung, Yuan Pin
AU - Tsai, Pei Jane
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank for Vet. Zheng-Ming Lui for kindly helping us the collection of swine isolates. This work was supported by grants from Ministry of Science and Technology ( 104-2321-B-006-022 and 105-2321-B-006-013 ).
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© 2016 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2016/10/1
Y1 - 2016/10/1
N2 - Clostridium difficile is the major cause of nosocomial diarrhea. We have previously demonstrated that in southern Taiwan, severe C. difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) cases were due to the C. difficile RT 126 strain infection, indicating the arrival of an epidemic C. difficile clone in southern Taiwan. RT126 has a close genetic relationship with RT078. However, the RT078 family is the predominant strain of C. difficile in animals worldwide, particularly in swine. In this study, we surveyed C. difficile strains isolated from swine at several farms in Taiwan from August 2011 to March 2015. We found that all swine strains, namely RT078 (32.5%, 37 of 114), RT126 (28.9%, 33 of 114) and RT127 (37.7%, 43 of 114), belonged to the toxigenic RT078 family. All strains had high gyrA mutation rate (57.9%, 66/114), which was linked to quinolone resistance. Notably, Rep-PCR revealed that 3 RT078 animal strains had the same fingerprint as human RT078 clinical isolates; their phylogenic relationship was closely related to the whole gene sequences of tcdB, thus suggesting zoonotic potential for C. difficile infection in Taiwan.
AB - Clostridium difficile is the major cause of nosocomial diarrhea. We have previously demonstrated that in southern Taiwan, severe C. difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) cases were due to the C. difficile RT 126 strain infection, indicating the arrival of an epidemic C. difficile clone in southern Taiwan. RT126 has a close genetic relationship with RT078. However, the RT078 family is the predominant strain of C. difficile in animals worldwide, particularly in swine. In this study, we surveyed C. difficile strains isolated from swine at several farms in Taiwan from August 2011 to March 2015. We found that all swine strains, namely RT078 (32.5%, 37 of 114), RT126 (28.9%, 33 of 114) and RT127 (37.7%, 43 of 114), belonged to the toxigenic RT078 family. All strains had high gyrA mutation rate (57.9%, 66/114), which was linked to quinolone resistance. Notably, Rep-PCR revealed that 3 RT078 animal strains had the same fingerprint as human RT078 clinical isolates; their phylogenic relationship was closely related to the whole gene sequences of tcdB, thus suggesting zoonotic potential for C. difficile infection in Taiwan.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2016.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2016.06.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 27292030
AN - SCOPUS:84992121098
SN - 1075-9964
VL - 41
SP - 125
EP - 130
JO - Anaerobe
JF - Anaerobe
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