A novel method for simultaneous Enterococcus species identification/typing and van genotyping by high resolution melt analysis

In order to develop a typing and identification method for van gene containing Enterococcus faecium, two multiplex PCR reactions were developed for use in HRM-PCR (High Resolution Melt-PCR): (i) vanA, vanB, vanC, vanC23 to detect van genes from different Enterococcus species; (ii) ISR (intergenic sp...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of microbiological methods 2012-09, Vol.90 (3), p.167-181
Hauptverfasser: Gurtler, Volker, Grando, Danilla, Mayall, Barrie C., Wang, Jenny, Ghaly-Derias, Shahbano
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Zusammenfassung:In order to develop a typing and identification method for van gene containing Enterococcus faecium, two multiplex PCR reactions were developed for use in HRM-PCR (High Resolution Melt-PCR): (i) vanA, vanB, vanC, vanC23 to detect van genes from different Enterococcus species; (ii) ISR (intergenic spacer region between the 16S and 23S rRNA genes) to detect all Enterococcus species and obtain species and isolate specific HRM curves. To test and validate the method three groups of isolates were tested: (i) 1672 Enterococcus species isolates from January 2009 to December 2009; (ii) 71 isolates previously identified and typed by PFGE (pulsed-field gel electrophoresis) and MLST (multi-locus sequence typing); and (iii) 18 of the isolates from (i) for which ISR sequencing was done. As well as successfully identifying 2 common genotypes by HRM from the Austin Hospital clinical isolates, this study analysed the sequences of all the vanB genes deposited in GenBank and developed a numerical classification scheme for the standardised naming of these vanB genotypes. The identification of Enterococcus faecalis from E. faecium was reliable and stable using ISR PCR. The typing of E. faecium by ISR PCR: (i) detected two variable peaks corresponding to different copy numbers of insertion sequences I and II corresponding to peak I and II respectively; (ii) produced 7 melt profiles for E. faecium with variable copy numbers of sequences I and II; (iii) demonstrated stability and instability of peak heights with equal frequency within the patient sample (36.4±4.5days and 38.6±5.8days respectively for 192 patients); (iv) detected ISR-HRM types with as much discrimination as PFGE and more than MLST; and (v) detected ISR-HRM types that differentiated some isolates that were identical by PFGE and MLST. In conjunction with the rapid and accurate van genotyping method described here, this ISR-HRM typing and identification method can be used as a stable identification and typing method with predictable instability based on recombination and concerted evolution of the rrn operon that will complement existing typing methods. [Display omitted] ► van gene and rrn ISR HRM-PCR's were developed to type/identify Enterococcus faecium.. ► Validated with 1672 clinical isolates, 71 typed by PFGE and MLST and 18 ISR sequenced. ► vanB genotypes were detected in clinical isolates using standardised naming scheme. ► ISR instability made ISR typing more discriminatory than MLST but equal to PFGE. ► ISR
ISSN:0167-7012
1872-8359
DOI:10.1016/j.mimet.2012.05.002