Ming-An Tsai, Ming She See, Cheng-Hsun Chiu, Pei-Chi Wang, Shih-Chu Chen
Journal of fish diseases 2023 NovElizabethkingia meningoseptica is a hazardous bacterium for agriculture production and human health. The present study identified E. meningoseptica from the bullfrog, human and reference strain BCRC 10677 by API 20NE, 50S ribosome protein L27 sequencing and pulse field gel electrophoresis to differentiate isolates of E. meningoseptica from aquatic animals and humans. All isolates from bullfrogs and humans were identified as E. meningoseptica by DNA sequencing with 98.8%-100% sequence identity. E. meningoseptica displayed significant genetic diversity when analysed using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). There were six distinct pulsotypes, including one pulsotype found in bullfrog isolates and five pulsotypes found in human isolates. However, E. meningoseptica from bullfrog exhibited one genotype only by PFGE. Overall, molecular epidemiological analysis of PFGE results indicated that the frog E. meningoseptica outbreaks in Taiwan were produced by genetically identical clones. The bullfrog isolates were not genetically related to other E. meningoseptica from human and reference isolates. This research provided the first comparisons of biochemical characteristics and genetic differences of E. meningoseptica from human and bullfrog isolates. © 2023 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Ming-An Tsai, Ming She See, Cheng-Hsun Chiu, Pei-Chi Wang, Shih-Chu Chen. Genotypic and phenotypic analysis of Elizabethkingia meningoseptica in bullfrog Rana catesbeiana isolated in Taiwan. Journal of fish diseases. 2023 Nov;46(11):1239-1248
PMID: 37519120
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