科研人員對痢疾菌宋內痢疾桿菌(Shigella sonnei)進入越南人群并且在15年的時間里進化過程中的基因組進行了高分辨率觀察,。Stephen Baker及其同事對宋內痢疾桿菌的263個分離株的基因組進行了測序,這種細菌每年造成超過1.6億個痢疾病例和與其相關的100萬人的死亡,。
自從16世紀在歐洲出現(xiàn)以來,,宋內痢疾桿菌已經產生了耐多藥進化枝,,稱為全球III型,如今它是全世界地方流行痢疾的許多地區(qū)的主要的痢疾病因,。這組作者在15年的時間里從越南多家醫(yī)院治療的病人身上獲得了宋內痢疾桿菌的分離株,,這些分離株只有兩個屬于大流行全球III型進化枝。這項分析揭示出宋內痢疾桿菌在20世紀80年代傳入越南之后經歷了多個變化,。越南某些地區(qū)的細菌種群積累了促進發(fā)病機理的突變,,被這些細菌復制和在地理上擴散的時候保留了下來,逐漸成為了當地宋內痢疾桿菌的遺傳固定組成部分,。這組作者說,,這項研究就一種人類病原體在一個新的人類人群立足過程中的的微進化提供了見解。(生物谷Bioon.com)
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PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1308632110
Tracking the establishment of local endemic populations of an emergent enteric pathogen
Shigella sonnei is a human-adapted pathogen that is emerging globally as the dominant agent of bacterial dysentery. To investigate local establishment, we sequenced the genomes of 263 Vietnamese S. sonnei isolated over 15 y. Our data show that S. sonnei was introduced into Vietnam in the 1980s and has undergone localized clonal expansion, punctuated by genomic fixation events through periodic selective sweeps. We uncover geographical spread, spatially restricted frontier populations, and convergent evolution through local gene pool sampling. This work provides a unique, high-resolution insight into the microevolution of a pioneering human pathogen during its establishment in a new host population.