A Caenorhabditis elegans Host Model Correlates with Invasive Disease Caused by Staphylococcus aureus Recovered during an Outbreak in Neonatal Intensive Care

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dc.contributor.authorWu, Kaiyu
dc.contributor.authorSimor, Andrew E
dc.contributor.authorVearncombe, Mary
dc.contributor.authorMcClure, Jo-Ann
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Kunyan
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-27T11:51:09Z
dc.date.available2018-09-27T11:51:09Z
dc.date.issued2012-01-01
dc.date.updated2018-09-27T11:51:08Z
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: Caenorhabditis elegans has previously been used as a host model to determine the virulence of clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates. In the present study, methicillin-susceptible S aureus (MSSA) strains associated with an outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) were investigated using the C elegans model.METHODS: Two distinct outbreak clones, MSSA type-C and MSSA type-G, were identified by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in a MSSA outbreak during a seven-month period in the NICU of the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto, Ontario). MSSA type-C was associated with severe infection, while type-G was associated with less invasive disease. Four representative type-C isolates, three type-G and three infant-colonized isolates unrelated to the outbreak, were sent to Calgary (Alberta), for the double-blinded virulence tests in the C elegans host model and for further molecular characterization.RESULTS: The invasive outbreak strains (type-C) demonstrated highly nematocidal activity, the noninvasive outbreak strains (type-G) an intermediate virulence, and the outbreak-unrelated colonization isolates demonstrated avirulence or low virulence in the C elegans model, with mean killing rates of 93.0%, 61.0% and 14.4% by day 9, respectively, for these three group strains. Different group MSSA strains had their own unique genetic profiles and virulence gene profiles, but all isolates within the same group (type-C or type-G) shared identical genetic characteristics and virulence gene patterns.CONCLUSIONS: The present blinded evaluation demonstrated that the nematocidal activities of MSSA strains correlated well with the clinical manifestation in an MSSA outbreak in the NICU, supporting C elegans as a robust host model to study the pathogenesis of S aureus.
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dc.identifier.citationKaiyu Wu, Andrew E Simor, Mary Vearncombe, Jo-Ann McClure, and Kunyan Zhang, “A Caenorhabditis elegans Host Model Correlates with Invasive Disease Caused by Staphylococcus aureus Recovered during an Outbreak in Neonatal Intensive Care,” Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 130-134, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/543817
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1155/2012/543817
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/108352
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dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2012 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.titleA Caenorhabditis elegans Host Model Correlates with Invasive Disease Caused by Staphylococcus aureus Recovered during an Outbreak in Neonatal Intensive Care
dc.typeJournal Article
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