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J Med Microbiol 55 (2006), 1165-1174; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.46518-0
© 2006 Society for General Microbiology
ISSN 1473-5644

Typing of intimin (eae) genes from enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) isolated from children with diarrhoea in Montevideo, Uruguay: identification of two novel intimin variants (µB and {xi}R/ß2B)

Miguel Blanco1, Jesús E. Blanco1, Ghizlane Dahbi1, Azucena Mora1, María Pilar Alonso1,2, Gustavo Varela3, María Pilar Gadea3, Felipé Schelotto3, Enrique A. González1 and Jorge Blanco1

1 Laboratorio de Referencia de E. coli (LREC), Departamento de Microbioloxía e Parasitoloxía, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 27002 Lugo, Spain

2 Unidade de Microbioloxía Clínica, Complexo Hospitalario Xeral-Calde, 27004 Lugo, Spain

3 Departamento de Bacteriología y Virología, Instituto de Higiene, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, CP 11600 Montevideo, Uruguay

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Jorge Blanco
jba{at}lugo.usc.es

Received 11 January 2006
Accepted 11 June 2006

A total of 71 enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strains isolated from children with diarrhoea in Montevideo, Uruguay, were characterized in this study. PCR showed that 57 isolates carried eae and bfp genes (typical EPEC strains), and 14 possessed only the eae gene (atypical EPEC strains). These EPEC strains belonged to 21 O : H serotypes, including eight novel serotypes not previously reported among human EPEC in other studies. However, 72 % belonged to only four serotypes: O55 : H– (six strains), O111 : H2 (13 strains), O111 : H– (14 strains) and O119 : H6 (18 strains). Nine intimin types, namely, {alpha}1 (two O142 strains), ß1 (29 strains, including 13 O111 : H2 and 14 O111 : H–), {gamma}1 (three O55 : H– strains), {theta} (five strains, including three strains with H40 antigen), {kappa} (two strains), {varepsilon}1 (one strain), {lambda} (one strain), µB (six strains of serotypes O55 : H51 and O55 : H–) and {xi}R/ß2B (22 strains, including 18 O119 : H6) were detected among the 71 EPEC strains. The authors have identified two novel intimin genes (µB and {xi}R/ß2B) in typical EPEC strains of serotypes O55 : H51/H– and O119 : H6/H–. The complete nucleotide sequences of the novel µB and {xi}R/ß2 variant genes were determined. PFGE typing after XbaI DNA digestion was performed on 44 representative EPEC strains. Genomic DNA fingerprinting revealed 44 distinct restriction patterns and the strains were clustered in 12 groups. Only 15 strains clustered in six groups of closely related (similarity >85 %) PFGE patterns, suggesting the prevailing clonal diversity among EPEC strains isolated from children with diarrhoea in Montevideo.

Abbreviations: AEEC, attaching and effacing E. coli; A/E, attaching and effacing; DEC, diarrhoeagenic E. coli; EPEC, enteropathogenic E. coli; STEC, Shiga-toxin-producing E. coli; UPGMA, unweighted pair group method with arithmetic means.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the complete nucleotide sequences of the novel µB and {xi}R/ß2B variant intimin genes are AJ705049 and AJ715407, respectively.




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