Characterization of two highly divergent lineages of exfoliative toxin B-encoding plasmids revealed in impetigo strains of Staphylococcus aureus

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BOTKA Tibor RŮŽIČKOVÁ Vladislava SVOBODOVÁ Karla PANTŮČEK Roman PETRÁŠ Petr ČEJKOVÁ Darina DOŠKAŘ Jiří

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference EMBO | EMBL Symposium: New Approaches and Concepts in Microbiology
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Faculty of Science

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Web https://www.embo-embl-symposia.org/symposia/2017/EES17-05/index.html
Field Genetics and molecular biology
Keywords ETB plasmid; exfoliative toxin B; phylogeny; genome analysis
Description Staphylococcal epidermolytic diseases are caused by S. aureus strains producing exfoliative toxins A and B encoded by mobile genetic elements: plasmids and prophages. We analyzed various etb gene-positive plasmids isolated from the impetigo strains implicated in outbreaks of pemphigus neonatorum in Czech maternity hospitals. Most of the plasmids were related to archetypal plasmid pETBTY4. They shared a same core sequence, but they differed from each other in the content of additional DNA regions such as antibiotic resistance-encoding transposons. The ETB plasmids of this lineage were carried by strains of clonal complex CC121. Some of these strains also harbored exfoliative toxin A-encoding prophages. A novel distinct type of ETB plasmid originated from a prophageless impetigo strain was isolated and characterized in detail. Carrying conjugative cluster genes, as well as new variants of ETB and EDIN genes, it could be regarded as a source of a new lineage of ETB plasmids. Based on our findings, we have designed a helpful detection assay, which facilitates the precise identification of the all described types of ETB plasmids.
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