Mohammadi Barzelighi, Hajar, Rahnamye Farzami, Marjan, ZeighamiAlamdari, Shabnam, Rahbar, Mohammad, Mohammadi Barzelighi, Hajar (2017). Investigating the Accessory Colonization Factor (ACF) Cluster in Clinical Strains of Vibrio cholerae Isolated during 2011-2012 in Iran. , 3(2), 51-55.
Hajar Mohammadi Barzelighi; Marjan Rahnamye Farzami; Shabnam ZeighamiAlamdari; Mohammad Rahbar; Hajar Mohammadi Barzelighi. "Investigating the Accessory Colonization Factor (ACF) Cluster in Clinical Strains of Vibrio cholerae Isolated during 2011-2012 in Iran". , 3, 2, 2017, 51-55.
Mohammadi Barzelighi, Hajar, Rahnamye Farzami, Marjan, ZeighamiAlamdari, Shabnam, Rahbar, Mohammad, Mohammadi Barzelighi, Hajar (2017). 'Investigating the Accessory Colonization Factor (ACF) Cluster in Clinical Strains of Vibrio cholerae Isolated during 2011-2012 in Iran', , 3(2), pp. 51-55.
Mohammadi Barzelighi, Hajar, Rahnamye Farzami, Marjan, ZeighamiAlamdari, Shabnam, Rahbar, Mohammad, Mohammadi Barzelighi, Hajar Investigating the Accessory Colonization Factor (ACF) Cluster in Clinical Strains of Vibrio cholerae Isolated during 2011-2012 in Iran. , 2017; 3(2): 51-55.

Investigating the Accessory Colonization Factor (ACF) Cluster in Clinical Strains of Vibrio cholerae Isolated during 2011-2012 in Iran

Infection Epidemiology and Microbiology
Article 4, Volume 3, Issue 2 - Serial Number 7, 2017, Pages 51-55    PDF (664.06 K)
Authors
Hajar Mohammadi Barzelighi1; Marjan Rahnamye Farzami2; Shabnam ZeighamiAlamdari3; Mohammad Rahbar* 4; Hajar Mohammadi Barzelighi1
1Department of Microbiology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
2Iranian Reference Health Laboratory , Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, IR Iran
3Food Microbiology Research Centre, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran
4Department of Microbiology, Iranian Reference Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, IR Iran
Abstract
Background: Accessory colonization factor is located immediately adjacent to and downstream of TCP cluster. These genes (acfA, B, C, D) are involved in bacterial colonization and pathogenesis. The aim of this study was to analyze the ACF cluster prevalence rate and gene content in clinical isolates of Vibrio cholerae.
Materials and Methods: All of the 21 V. cholerae isolates used in this study were collected during 2011-2012 outbreaks in Iran. All of the isolates were screened by biochemical tests and confirmed by specific PCR for 16srRNA-23srRNA intergenic space. The gene content of ACF cluster in the isolates was analyzed using 4 primer pairs with overlapping sequences and then subjected into Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) assay.
Results: Among the 21 V. cholerae isolates, all of them (100%) were identified as V. cholerae O1 Inaba, 20 (95%) isolates were determined with El Tor biotype specificity, and 1 isolate (5%) appeared as Classical biotype. A total of 18 strains (85.8 %) contained a complete set of ACF-associated genes, 3 strains (14.2 %) were negative for ACF cluster, and all of the strains showed similar RFLP pattern to each other and to V. cholerae ATCC 14035.

Conclusion: The results showed that O1 Inaba was the dominant serotype and positive for ACF cluster in pathogenic V. cholerae isolates collected during 2011-2012 in Iran. The presence of some ACF negative strains with potentially pathogenic characteristics proposed that other colonization factors might have been involved in causing pathogenicity and diarrhea in these strains.
Keywords
Accessory colonization factor; Vibrio cholerae; Restriction fragment length polymorphism
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