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Development and application of the active surveillance of pathogens microarray to monitor bacterial gene flux.

Stabler, RA; Dawson, LF; Oyston, PCF; Titball, RW; Wade, J; Hinds, J; Witney, AA; Wren, BW (2008) Development and application of the active surveillance of pathogens microarray to monitor bacterial gene flux. BMC Microbiol, 8. p. 177. ISSN 1471-2180 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-8-177
SGUL Authors: Hinds, Jason Witney, Adam Austin

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Human and animal health is constantly under threat by emerging pathogens that have recently acquired genetic determinants that enhance their survival, transmissibility and virulence. We describe the construction and development of an Active Surveillance of Pathogens (ASP) oligonucleotide microarray, designed to 'actively survey' the genome of a given bacterial pathogen for virulence-associated genes. RESULTS: The microarray consists of 4958 reporters from 151 bacterial species and include genes for the identification of individual bacterial species as well as mobile genetic elements (transposons, plasmid and phage), virulence genes and antibiotic resistance genes. The ASP microarray was validated with nineteen bacterial pathogens species, including Francisella tularensis, Clostridium difficile, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecium and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. The ASP microarray identified these bacteria, and provided information on potential antibiotic resistance (eg sufamethoxazole resistance and sulfonamide resistance) and virulence determinants including genes likely to be acquired by horizontal gene transfer (e.g. an alpha-haemolysin). CONCLUSION: The ASP microarray has potential in the clinic as a diagnostic tool, as a research tool for both known and emerging pathogens, and as an early warning system for pathogenic bacteria that have been recently modified either naturally or deliberately.

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Additional Information: © 2008 Stabler et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Bacteria, Bacterial Infections, Bacterial Proteins, DNA, Bacterial, Drug Resistance, Bacterial, Humans, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Virulence, Virulence Factors, Humans, Bacteria, Bacterial Infections, Bacterial Proteins, DNA, Bacterial, Virulence Factors, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Drug Resistance, Bacterial, Virulence, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Microbiology, MICROBIOLOGY, YERSINIA-PESTIS, STENOTROPHOMONAS-MALTOPHILIA, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANCE, VIBRIO-CHOLERAE, EVOLUTION, PLASMID, GENOME, PCR, Microbiology, 06 Biological Sciences, 11 Medical And Health Sciences, 07 Agricultural And Veterinary Sciences
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Infection and Immunity Research Institute (INII)
Journal or Publication Title: BMC Microbiol
ISSN: 1471-2180
Language: eng
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9 October 2008Published
9 October 2008Accepted
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0
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062511Wellcome TrustUNSPECIFIED
G0300020Medical Research CouncilUNSPECIFIED
UNSPECIFIEDMedical Research CouncilUNSPECIFIED
PubMed ID: 18844996
Web of Science ID: WOS:000262256400001
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/107364
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-8-177

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