title: Genomic Comparative Study of Bovine Mastitis Escherichia coli.
abstract: Escherichia coli, one of the main causative agents of bovine mastitis, is responsible for significant losses on dairy farms. In order to better understand the pathogenicity of E. coli mastitis, an accurate characterization of E. coli strains isolated from mastitis cases is required. By using phylogenetic analyses and whole genome comparison of 5 currently available mastitis E. coli genome sequences, we searched for genotypic traits specific for mastitis isolates. Our data confirm that there is a bias in the distribution of mastitis isolates in the different phylogenetic groups of the E. coli species, with the majority of strains belonging to phylogenetic groups A and B1. An interesting feature is that clustering of strains based on their accessory genome is very similar to that obtained using the core genome. This finding illustrates the fact that phenotypic properties of strains from different phylogroups are likely to be different. As a consequence, it is possible that different strategies could be used by mastitis isolates of different phylogroups to trigger mastitis. Our results indicate that mastitis E. coli isolates analyzed in this study carry very few of the virulence genes described in other pathogenic E. coli strains. A more detailed analysis of the presence/absence of genes involved in LPS synthesis, iron acquisition and type 6 secretion systems did not uncover specific properties of mastitis isolates. Altogether, these results indicate that mastitis E. coli isolates are rather characterized by a lack of bona fide currently described virulence genes.
authors.affiliation: INRA, UMR 1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, CIRM-Bactéries Pathogènes, F-37380, Nouzilly, France.|Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR 1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37000, Tours, France.
authors.forename: Florent
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kempf
authors.affiliation: INRA, UMR 1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, CIRM-Bactéries Pathogènes, F-37380, Nouzilly, France.|Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR 1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37000, Tours, France.
authors.forename: Cindy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Slugocki
authors.affiliation: National Mastitis Center, Division of Bacteriology, Kimron Veterinary Institute, POB 12, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel.
authors.forename: Shlomo E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Blum
authors.affiliation: National Mastitis Center, Division of Bacteriology, Kimron Veterinary Institute, POB 12, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel.
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Leitner
authors.affiliation: INRA, UMR 1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, Immunité et Infections Mammaires, F-37380, Nouzilly, France.|Université François Rabelais de Tours, UMR 1282 Infectiologie et Santé Publique, F-37000, Tours, France.
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Germon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D016680:Genome, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D023281:Genomics; D008414:Mastitis, Bovine / Q000382:microbiology*; D010802:Phylogeny
chemical_list: D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins
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