1. Evolutionary Events Associated with an Outbreak of Meningococcal Disease in Men Who Have Sex with Men
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Ulrich Vogel, Isabelle Parent du Châtelet, Matthias Frosch, Wiebke Hellenbrand, Martin Lappann, Karola Prior, Frédéric J. Veyrier, Dag Harmsen, Eva Hong, Andreas Otto, Dörte Becher, Heike Claus, Muhamed-Kheir Taha, Ala-Eddine Deghmane, Centre National de Référence des Méningocoques et Haemophilus influenzae - National Reference Center Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae (CNR), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP), Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology [Wuerzburg], University of Würzburg, Institut Armand Frappier (INRS-IAF), Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique [Québec] (INRS)-Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Institut für Mikrobiologie - Institute for Microbiology, Universität Greifswald - University of Greifswald, Robert Koch Institute [Berlin] (RKI), Institut de Veille Sanitaire (INVS), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster = University of Münster (WWU), The French Reference Laboratory is funded by the Institut de Veille Sanitaire and the Institut Pasteur. The German Reference Laboratory is funded by the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany. The genomics work was funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Program [grant number FP7/2007-2013 to DH] under Grant Agreement N° 278864 in the framework of the EU PathoNGenTrace project. The animal work was also supported by a grant from the ERA-NET PathoGenomics (ANR-08-PATH-003-01). The proteome work was funded by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung grant Medizinische Infektionsgenomik: Proteomics von Meningokokken und Pneumokokken, Teilprojekt Würzburg, Foerderkennzeichen 0315828D, to UV and 0315828A to DB. This publication made use of the Neisseria Multilocus Sequence Typing website (http://pubmlst.org/neisseria/) developed by Keith Jolley and sited at the University of Oxford. The development of this site has been funded by the Wellcome Trust and European Union, ANR-08-PATH-0003,COMEVAC(2008), European Project: 278864,EC:FP7:HEALTH,FP7-HEALTH-2011-two-stage,PATHONGEN-TRACE(2012), Institut Pasteur [Paris], and University of Münster, Department of Periodontology
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,Bacterial Diseases ,Proteome ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,lcsh:Medicine ,Gene Expression ,Neisseria meningitidis, Serogroup C ,Neisseria meningitidis ,medicine.disease_cause ,Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ,Mouse models ,Men who have sex with men ,Disease Outbreaks ,Mice ,[SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases ,Germany ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Clade ,lcsh:Science ,Phylogeny ,Multidisciplinary ,Meningococcal disease ,Genomics ,Animal Models ,3. Good health ,Bacterial Pathogens ,Chemistry ,Infectious Diseases ,Medical Microbiology ,Complement Factor H ,Host-Pathogen Interactions ,Physical Sciences ,France ,Pathogens ,Meningitis ,Neisseria ,Research Article ,Nitrite Reductases ,030106 microbiology ,Mice, Transgenic ,Biology ,Meningitis, Meningococcal ,Research and Analysis Methods ,Genome sequencing ,Microbiology ,Evolution, Molecular ,03 medical and health sciences ,Model Organisms ,Bacterial Proteins ,medicine ,Genetics ,Animals ,Humans ,Urethritis ,Mammalian genomics ,ddc:610 ,Homosexuality, Male ,Molecular Biology Techniques ,Sequencing Techniques ,Microbial Pathogens ,Molecular Biology ,Nitrites ,Bacteria ,lcsh:R ,Sexual Preferences ,Organisms ,Chemical Compounds ,Outbreak ,Biology and Life Sciences ,medicine.disease ,Virology ,Neisseria gonorrhoeae ,Animal Genomics ,People and Places ,lcsh:Q ,Population Groupings ,Carrier Proteins - Abstract
International audience; Meningococci spread via respiratory droplets, whereas the closely related gonococci are transmitted sexually. Several outbreaks of invasive meningococcal disease have been reported in Europe and the United States among men who have sex with men (MSM). We recently identified an outbreak of serogroup C meningococcal disease among MSM in Germany and France. In this study, genomic and proteomic techniques were used to analyze the outbreak isolates. In addition, genetically identical urethritis isolates were recovered from France and Germany and included in the analysis. Genome sequencing revealed that the isolates from the outbreak among MSM and from urethritis cases belonged to a clade within clonal complex 11. Proteome analysis showed they expressed nitrite reductase, enabling anaerobic growth as previously described for gonococci. Invasive isolates from MSM, but not urethritis isolates, further expressed functional human factor H binding protein associated with enhanced survival in a newly developed transgenic mouse model expressing human factor H, a complement regulatory protein. In conclusion, our data suggest that urethritis and outbreak isolates followed a joint adaptation route including adaption to the urogenital tract.
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- 2016