Do Staphylococcus epidermidis genetic clusters predict isolation sources?

Tolo, I, Thomas, JC ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1599-9123, Fischer, RSB, Brown, EL, Gray, BM, Robinson, DA and Carroll, KC, 2016. Do Staphylococcus epidermidis genetic clusters predict isolation sources? Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 54 (7), pp. 1711-1719. ISSN 0095-1137

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Abstract

Staphylococcus epidermidis is a ubiquitous colonizer of human skin and a common cause of medical device-associated infections. The extent to which the population genetic structure of S. epidermidis distinguishes commensal from pathogenic isolates is unclear. Previously, Bayesian clustering of 437 multilocus sequence types (STs) in the international database revealed a population structure of six genetic clusters (GCs) that may reflect the species' ecology. Here, we first verified the presence of six GCs, including two (GC3 and GC5) with significant admixture, in an updated database of 578 STs. Next, a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) assay was developed that accurately assigned 545 (94%) of 578 STs to GCs. Finally, the hypothesis that GCs could distinguish isolation sources was tested by SNP typing and GC assignment of 154 isolates from hospital patients with bacteremia and those with blood culture contaminants and from nonhospital carriage. GC5 was isolated almost exclusively from hospital sources. GC1 and GC6 were isolated from all sources but were overrepresented in isolates from nonhospital and infection sources, respectively. GC2, GC3, and GC4 were relatively rare in this collection. No association was detected between fdh-positive isolates (GC2 and GC4) and nonhospital sources. Using a machine learning algorithm, GCs predicted hospital and nonhospital sources with 80% accuracy and predicted infection and contaminant sources with 45% accuracy, which was comparable to the results seen with a combination of five genetic markers (icaA, IS256, sesD [bhp], mecA, and arginine catabolic mobile element [ACME]). Thus, analysis of population structure with subgenomic data shows the distinction of hospital and nonhospital sources and the near-inseparability of sources within a hospital.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Creators:	Tolo, I., Thomas, J.C., Fischer, R.S.B., Brown, E.L., Gray, B.M., Robinson, D.A. and Carroll, K.C.
Publisher:	American Society for Microbiology
Date:	July 2016
Volume:	54
Number:	7
ISSN:	0095-1137
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1128/jcm.03345-15 DOI
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	11 Apr 2018 08:31
Last Modified:	11 Apr 2018 08:31
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/33249

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