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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 1999, p. 1313-1318, Vol. 37, No. 5
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Molecular Characterization of a New Ribotype of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal Associated with an Outbreak of Cholera in Bangladesh

Shah M. Faruque,1,* A. K. Siddique,2 Manujendra N. Saha,1 Asadulghani,1 M. Mostafizur Rahman,1 K. Zaman,2 M. John Albert,1 David A. Sack,3 and R. Bradley Sack3

Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Laboratory Sciences Division,1 and Epidemic Control Preparedness Program, Health and Population Extension Division,2 International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh, and Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland3

Received 9 November 1998/Returned for modification 30 December 1998/Accepted 12 February 1999

Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal initially appeared in the southern coastal region of Bangladesh and spread northward, causing explosive epidemics during 1992 and 1993. The resurgence of V. cholerae O139 during 1995 after its transient displacement by a new clone of El Tor vibrios demonstrated rapid changes in the epidemiology of cholera in Bangladesh. A recent outbreak of cholera in two north-central districts of Bangladesh caused by V. cholerae O139 led us to analyze strains collected from the outbreak and compare them with V. cholerae O139 strains isolated from other regions of Bangladesh and neighboring India to investigate their origins. Analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphisms in genes for conserved rRNA (ribotype) revealed that the recently isolated V. cholerae O139 strains belonged to a new ribotype which was distinct from previously described ribotypes of toxigenic V. cholerae O139. All strains carried the genes for toxin-coregulated pili (tcpA and tcpI) and accessory colonization factor (acfB), the regulatory gene toxR, and multiple copies of the lysogenic phage genome encoding cholera toxin (CTXPhi ) and belonged to a previously described ctxA genotype. Comparative analysis of the rfb gene cluster by PCR revealed the absence of a large region of the O1-specific rfb operon downstream of the rfaD gene and the presence of an O139-specific genomic region in all O139 strains. Southern hybridization analysis of the O139-specific genomic region also produced identical restriction patterns in strains belonging to the new ribotype and those of previously described ribotypes. These results suggested that the new ribotype of Bengal vibrios possibly originated from an existing strain of V. cholerae O139 by genetic changes in the rRNA operons. In contrast to previously isolated O139 strains which mostly had resistance to trimethoprim, sulfamethoxazole, and streptomycin encoded by a transposon (SXT element), 68.6% of the toxigenic strains analyzed in the present study, including all strains belonging to the new ribotype, were susceptible to these antibiotics. Molecular analysis of the SXT element revealed possible deletion of a 3.6-kb region of the SXT element in strains which were susceptible to the antibiotics. Thus, V. cholerae O139 strains in Bangladesh are also undergoing considerable reassortments in genetic elements encoding antimicrobial resistance.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Laboratory Sciences Division, ICDDR,B, GPO Box 128, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Phone: 880 2 871751 to 880 2 871760. Fax: 880 2 872529 and 880 2 883116. E-mail: faruque{at}icddrb.org.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, May 1999, p. 1313-1318, Vol. 37, No. 5
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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