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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2005, p. 5091-5096, Vol. 43, No. 10
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.10.5091-5096.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Delineation of Campylobacter concisus Genomospecies by Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis and Correlation of Results with Clinical Data

Rune Aabenhus,1 Stephen L. W. On,2* Berit L. Siemer,2 Henrik Permin,3 and Leif P. Andersen4

Department of Clinical Microbiology, Rigshospitalet,1 Danish Institute of Food and Veterinary Research,2 Department of Internal Medicine, Hovedstatens Sygehusfaelleskab Bispebjerg Hospital,3 Department of Infection Control and Prevention, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark4

Received 11 February 2005/ Returned for modification 10 May 2005/ Accepted 7 July 2005

Campylobacter concisus has been as frequently isolated from human diarrhea as the important enteropathogen Campylobacter jejuni, but it also occurs in the feces of healthy individuals. The role of C. concisus in human disease has been difficult to determine, since the species comprises at least two phenotypically indistinguishable but genetically distinct taxa (i.e., genomospecies) that may vary in pathogenicity. We examined 62 C. concisus strains by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) profiling and correlated the results with clinical data. All C. concisus strains gave unique AFLP profiles, and numerical analysis of these data distributed the strains among four clusters. The clustering was of taxonomic significance: two clusters contained, respectively, the type strain (of oral origin) and a reference strain (from diarrhea) of each of the known genomospecies. Genomospecies 2 strains were more frequently isolated from immunocompetent patients and/or patients without concomitant infections that presented with fever, chronic diarrhea, and gut inflammation than was genomospecies 1, clustering with the type strain of oral origin. Bloody diarrhea was recorded only with C. concisus genomospecies 2 infections. We identified two additional C. concisus genomospecies: genomospecies 3 comprised a single strain from an immunocompetent patient, and genomospecies 4 contained five isolates from severely immunodeficient patients, i.e., organ transplantation recipients or those with hematological malignancies. All genomospecies 4 strains were of the same protein profile group and failed to react with a C. concisus species-specific PCR assay based on 23S rRNA gene sequences: the taxonomic position of this group requires closer investigation. Campylobacter concisus is genetically and taxonomically diverse and contains at least four distinct genomospecies that may exhibit differences in their spectra of virulence potential.

* Corresponding author. Present address: Institute of Environmental Science & Research, Christchurch Science Center, 27 Creyke Rd., Ilam, P.O. Box 29 181, Christchurch 8004, New Zealand. Phone: 643 351 6019, Fax: 643 351 0010. E-mail: stephen.on{at}esr.cri.nz.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2005, p. 5091-5096, Vol. 43, No. 10
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.10.5091-5096.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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