Improving resolution of public health surveillance for human Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection: 3 years of prospective multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA)

BMC Infectious Diseases

Gwendolyn L Gilbert³  Jennie Musto²  Katina Kardamanidis²  Connie WY Ha³  Peter Howard¹  Qinning Wang¹  Vitali Sintchenko³ 

[1] Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology-Public Health, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2145, Australia;Centre for Health Protection, NSW Ministry of Health, Sydney, NSW 2059, Australia;Sydney Emerging Infections and Biosecurity Institute and Sydney Medical School-Westmead, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

关键词: Genotype clustering;    Subtyping;    Molecular epidemiology;    Salmonella;   

Others  :  1175412
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2334-12-78

 received in 2011-09-20, accepted in 2012-03-31,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Prospective typing of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (STM) by multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) can assist in identifying clusters of STM cases that might otherwise have gone unrecognised, as well as sources of sporadic and outbreak cases. This paper describes the dynamics of human STM infection in a prospective study of STM MLVA typing for public health surveillance.

Methods

During a three-year period between August 2007 and September 2010 all confirmed STM isolates were fingerprinted using MLVA as part of the New South Wales (NSW) state public health surveillance program.

Results

A total of 4,920 STM isolates were typed and a subset of 4,377 human isolates was included in the analysis. The STM spectrum was dominated by a small number of phage types, including DT170 (44.6% of all isolates), DT135 (13.9%), DT9 (10.8%), DT44 (4.5%) and DT126 (4.5%). There was a difference in the discriminatory power of MLVA types within endemic phage types: Simpson's index of diversity ranged from 0.109 and 0.113 for DTs 9 and 135 to 0.172 and 0.269 for DTs 170 and 44, respectively. 66 distinct STM clusters were observed ranging in size from 5 to 180 cases and in duration from 4 weeks to 25 weeks. 43 clusters had novel MLVA types and 23 represented recurrences of previously recorded MLVA types. The diversity of the STM population remained relatively constant over time. The gradual increase in the number of STM cases during the study was not related to significant changes in the number of clusters or their size. 667 different MLVA types or patterns were observed.

Conclusions

Prospective MLVA typing of STM allows the detection of community outbreaks and demonstrates the sustained level of STM diversity that accompanies the increasing incidence of human STM infections. The monitoring of novel and persistent MLVA types offers a new benchmark for STM surveillance.

A part of this study was presented at the MEEGID × (Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases) Conference, 3-5 November 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Sintchenko et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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