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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2005, p. 4237-4241, Vol. 43, No. 8
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.8.4237-4241.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Pathogen Evolution In Vivo: Genome Dynamics of Two Isolates Obtained 9 Years Apart from a Duodenal Ulcer Patient Infected with a Single Helicobacter pylori Strain

Valérie Prouzet-Mauléon,2 M. Abid Hussain,1 Hervé Lamouliatte,3 Farhana Kauser,1 Francis Mégraud,2 and Niyaz Ahmed1*

Pathogen Evolution Group, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India,1 INSERM ERI 10 and Centre National de Référence des Campylobacters et Hélicobacters, Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, France,2 Service Hépato-Gastroentérologie, Hôpital Saint André, Bordeaux, France3

Received 4 April 2005/ Returned for modification 6 May 2005/ Accepted 14 May 2005

The survival and microevolution of Helicobacter pylori strains in the niches of the stomach after eradication therapy have largely been unexplored. We analyzed genomic signatures for two successive isolates obtained 9 years apart from a duodenal ulcer patient who underwent eradication therapy for H. pylori. These isolates were genotyped based on 50 different parameters involving three different fingerprinting approaches and several evolutionarily significant and virulence-associated landmarks in the genome, including nine informative gene loci, the cag pathogenicity island and its right junction, members of the plasticity region cluster, and vacA and iceA alleles. Our observations reveal that the two isolates were derived from the same strain that colonized the patient for almost a decade and were almost identical. Microevolution, however, was observed in the cagA gene and its right junction, the vacA m1 allele, and a member of the plasticity region cluster (JHP926). These results suggest that H. pylori has a great ability to survive and reemerge as a microevolved strain posteradication, thereby hinting at the requirement for follow-up of patients after therapy.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Pathogen Evolution Group, CDFD, ECIL Rd., Nacharam, Hyderabad 500 076, India. Phone: 91 40 27150008. Fax: 91 40 27155610. E-mail: niyaz{at}cdfd.org.in.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2005, p. 4237-4241, Vol. 43, No. 8
0095-1137/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.43.8.4237-4241.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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