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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, November 2006, p. 3975-3979, Vol. 44, No. 11
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01163-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Group A Streptococci from Invasive-Disease Episodes in Poland Are Remarkably Divergent at the Molecular Level{triangledown}

Katarzyna Szczypa,1 Ewa Sadowy,2 Radoslaw Izdebski,2 Lenka Strakova,3 and Waleria Hryniewicz1*

National Institute of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, Warsaw, Poland,1 National Institute of Public Health, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Warsaw, Poland,2 National Institute of Public Health, Department of Bacterial Air-Born Diseases, Prague, Czech Republic3

Received 6 June 2006/ Returned for modification 20 July 2006/ Accepted 29 August 2006

Forty-one clinical isolates of group A streptococcus (GAS) were recovered in Poland from patients with severe invasive infections and were analyzed by phenotypic and genotypic techniques. All isolates were characterized by determining their susceptibilities to antimicrobial agents and by determining their types by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, multilocus sequence typing, emm typing, and the detection of five streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin genes (speA, speB, speC, speF, ssa). The isolates studied were fully susceptible to penicillin G, levofloxacin, quinupristin-dalfopristin, and linezolid. Resistance to tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and erythromycin was detected in 46.3, 12.1, and 9.8% of the isolates, respectively. A total of 23 different emm sequence types were identified, of which emm1 and emm12 (19.5% each) were the most common, followed by emm81, emm44/61, and emm85. All the emm1 isolates had the speA2 allele. Twenty-three unrelated sequence types (STs) were identified, with the most frequent STs, ST28 and ST36, corresponding to emm1 and emm12, respectively. Six newly found STs (STs 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, and 385) corresponded to emm types 74, 102, 77, 76, 84 and 63, respectively. The emm1 type and the presence of speA2 gene were associated with the severity of GAS infections. This work presents the first molecular study on Polish invasive GAS isolates.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Institute of Public Health, Chelmska 30/34 00-725 Warsaw, Poland. Phone: 48 22 851 46 70. Fax: 48 22 841 29 49. E-mail: waleria{at}cls.edu.pl.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 6 September 2006.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, November 2006, p. 3975-3979, Vol. 44, No. 11
0095-1137/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JCM.01163-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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