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Comparative genomics of Chinese and international isolates of Escherichia albertii: population structure and evolution of virulence and antimicrobial resistance

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MICROBIAL GENOMICS
卷 7, 期 12, 页码 -

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MICROBIOLOGY SOC
DOI: 10.1099/mgen.0.000710

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Escherichia albertii; population structure; virulence; multidrug resistance; transmissible elements; species-specific marker genes

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  1. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFC1601502]
  2. State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, China CDC [2016SKLID309]
  3. Australian Research Council [DP170101917]
  4. UNSW scholarship (University International Postgraduate Award)

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Escherichia albertii is a recently recognized species causing diarrhea, with distinct clades and lineages in China and high prevalence of multidrug resistance. New virulence gene subtypes were identified, and specific genes for species identification were discovered. The study also revealed the presence of plasmids carrying MDR and virulence genes, as well as clustered prophages with varying virulence gene content.
Escherichia albertii is a recently recognized species in the genus Escherichia that causes diarrhoea. The population structure, genetic diversity and genomic features have not been fully examined. Here, 169 E. albertii isolates from different sources and regions in China were sequenced and combined with 312 publicly available genomes (from additional 14 countries) for genomic analyses. The E. albertii population was divided into two clades and eight lineages, with lineage 3 (L3), L5 and L8 more common in China. Clinical isolates were observed in all clades/lineages. Virulence genes were found to be distributed differently among lineages: subtypes of the intimin encoding gene eae and the cytolethal distending toxin gene cdtB were lineage associated, and the second type three secretion system (ETT2) island was truncated in L3 and L6. Seven new eae subtypes and one new cdtB subtype (cdtB-VI) were identified. Alarmingly, 85.9 % of the Chinese E. albertii isolates were predicted to be multidrug-resistant (MDR) with 35.9 % harbouring genes capable of conferring resistance to 10 to 14 different drug classes. The majority of the MDR isolates were of poultry source from China and belonged to four sequence types (STs) [ST4638, ST4479, ST4633 and ST4488]. Thirty-four plasmids with some carrying MDR and virulence genes, and 130 prophages were identified from 17 complete E. albertii genomes. The 130 intact prophages were clustered into five groups, with group five prophages harbouring more virulence genes. We further identified three E. albertii specific genes as markers for the identification of this species. Our findings provided fundamental insights into the population structure, virulence variation and drug resistance of E. albertii.

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