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JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 55, Issue 1, Pages 44-50Publisher
ELSEVIER TAIWAN
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmii.2020.09.001
Keywords
Adhesins; fimH; papGII; Escherichia coli; Urinary tract infection; Kidney infection
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- National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan [NCKUH-10509002]
- Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taipei, Taiwan [MOST-107-2314-B-006-011]
- Headquarters of University Advancement, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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This study confirms the advantage and synergistic action of FimH and PapGII in E.coli kidney infection through comparing the prevalence and coexistence pattern of adhesin genes in upper and lower urinary tract infection strains, as well as evaluating the infection ability in a mouse model.
Background: FimH adhesin is proposed to enhance Escherichia coli kidney infection by acting with PapGII adhesin, but genetic epidemiology study and animal study have not been widely conducted to confirm this hypothesis. Methods: We compared the prevalence of adhesin gene and their coexistent pattern between upper and lower urinary tract infection (UTI) strains. fimH mutant (EC114FM), papGII mutant (EC114PM) and fimH/papGII double mutant (EC114DM) were constructed from a pylonephritogenic strain (EC114). We compared among these strains for the infection ability in bladders and kidneys of female BALB/c mice challenged transurethrally with these bacteria and assessed 1, 3, and 7 days after inoculation. Results: Strains carrying fimH-only genotype were significantly more prevalent in lower UTI (P < 0.001). Strains carrying the fimH/papGII, but not papGII-only, were significantly associated with upper UTI (P Z 0.001). Incidence of kidney infection increased after inoculation with EC114 on days 1 and 3, at both low and high dose, as compared with EC114DM; and the effect was greater than the sum of individual effect of EC114PM and EC114FM. Geometric means of quantitative bacterial counts in the kidneys significantly decreased when challenged with EC114FM on days 3 and 7, EC114PM on day 3 and EC114DM on day 1 after inoculation at high dose, as compared with EC114 (all P < 0.05). Conclusions: We confirmed the advantage and synergistic action of FimH and PapGII for E. coli kidney infection and concluded that antagonists against FimH and PapGII adhesin may prevent kidney infection and enable its management. Copyright 2020, Taiwan Society of Microbiology. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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