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J Virol Methods ; 319: 114756, 2023 09.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37268046

RESUMEN

Equine arteritis virus (EAV) is an Alphaarterivirus (family Arteriviridae, order Nidovirales) that frequently causes an influenza-like illness in adult horses, but can also cause the abortions in mares and death of newborn foals. Once primary infection has been established, EAV can persist in the reproductive tract of some stallions. However, the mechanisms enabling this persistence, which depends on testosterone, remain largely unknown. We aimed to establish an in vitro model of non-cytopathic EAV infection to study viral persistence. In this work, we infected several cell lines originating from the male reproductive tract of different species. EAV infection was fully cytopathic for 92BR (donkey cells) and DDT1 MF-2 (hamster cells) cells, and less cytopathic for PC-3 cells (human cells); ST cells (porcine cells) seemed to eliminate the virus; LNCaP (human cells) and GC-1 spg (murine cells) cells were not permissive to EAV infection; finally, TM3 cells (murine cells) were permissive to EAV infection without any overt cytopathic effects. Infected TM3 cells can be maintained at least 7 days in culture without any subculture. They can also be subcultured over 39 days (subculturing them at 1:2 the first time at 5 dpi and then every 2-3 days), but in this case, the percentage of infected cells remains low. Infected TM3 cells may therefore provide a new model to study the host-pathogen interactions and to help determine the mechanisms involved in EAV persistence in stallion reproductive tract.


Asunto(s)
Infecciones por Arterivirus , Equartevirus , Enfermedades de los Caballos , Cricetinae , Embarazo , Masculino , Caballos , Animales , Humanos , Femenino , Ratones , Porcinos , Interacciones Huésped-Patógeno , Genitales , Línea Celular , Infecciones por Arterivirus/veterinaria
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Parasit Vectors ; 16(1): 64, 2023 Feb 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36765420

RESUMEN

BACKGROUND: Equine strongyles encompass more than 64 species of nematode worms that are responsible for growth retardation and the death of animals. The factors underpinning variation in the structure of the equine strongyle community remain unknown. METHODS: Using horse-based strongyle community data collected after horse deworming (48 horses in Poland, 197 horses in Ukraine), we regressed species richness and the Gini-Simpson index upon the horse's age, faecal egg count, sex and operation of origin. Using the Ukrainian observations, we applied a hierarchical diversity partitioning framework to estimate how communities were remodelled across operations, age groups and horses. Lastly, strongyle species counts collected after necropsy (46 horses in France, 150 in Australia) were considered for analysis of their co-occurrences across intestinal compartments using a joint species distribution modelling approach. RESULTS: First, inter-operation variation accounted for > 45% of the variance in species richness or the Gini-Simpson index (which relates to species dominance in communities). Species richness decreased with horse's age (P = 0.01) and showed a mild increase with parasite egg excretion (P < 0.1), but the Gini-Simpson index was neither associated with parasite egg excretion (P = 0.8) nor with horse age (P = 0.37). Second, within-host diversity represented half of the overall diversity across Ukrainian operations. While this is expected to erase species diversity across communities, community dissimilarity between horse age classes was the second most important contributor to overall diversity (25.8%). Third, analysis of species abundance data quantified at necropsy defined a network of positive co-occurrences between the four most prevalent strongyle genera. This pattern was common to necropsies performed in France and Australia. CONCLUSIONS: Taken together, these results show a pattern of ß-diversity maintenance across age classes combined with positive co-occurrences that might be grounded by priority effects between the major species.


Asunto(s)
Antihelmínticos , Líquidos Corporales , Enfermedades de los Caballos , Infecciones Equinas por Strongyloidea , Caballos , Animales , Antihelmínticos/uso terapéutico , Infecciones Equinas por Strongyloidea/tratamiento farmacológico , Infecciones Equinas por Strongyloidea/parasitología , Recuento de Huevos de Parásitos/veterinaria , Heces/parasitología , Enfermedades de los Caballos/parasitología
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J Glob Antimicrob Resist ; 23: 137-144, 2020 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32992034

RESUMEN

OBJECTIVES: Study of the rifampicin resistance of Rhodococcus equi strains isolated from French horses over a 20-year period. METHODS: Rifampicin susceptibility was tested by disk diffusion (DD) and broth macrodilution methods, and rpoB gene sequencing and MLST were performed on 40 R. equi strains, 50.0% of which were non-susceptible to rifampicin. RESULTS: Consistency of results was observed between rifampicin susceptibility testing and rpoB sequencing. Strains non-susceptible to rifampicin by DD had a substitution at one of the sites (Asp516, His526 and Ser531) frequently encountered and conferring rifampicin resistance. High-level resistance was correlated with His526Asp or Ser531Leu substitutions; low-level resistance was correlated with Asp516Tyr substitution, a novel substitution for R. equi. Strains susceptible to rifampicin by DD showed no substitution in the three sites, except for two strains carrying, respectively, the His526Asn and Asp516Val substitutions (previously correlated with low-level rifampicin resistance). Both strains were isolated from an animal from which ten other strains were also isolated and found to be rifampicin-non-susceptible by DD. MLST showed the presence of 10 STs (including the novel ST43), but no association was observed with rifampicin resistance. CONCLUSIONS: This study confirms that certain substitutions in RpoB are more likely to confer high- or low-level rifampicin resistance, describes a new substitution conferring rifampicin resistance in R. equi and suggests non-clonal dissemination of rifampicin-resistant strains in France. Standard DD may miss strains with a low-level rifampicin-resistant substitution; further studies are needed to remedy the absence of R. equi-specific clinical breakpoints.


Asunto(s)
Rhodococcus equi , Rhodococcus , Animales , Francia , Caballos , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana , Tipificación de Secuencias Multilocus , Rhodococcus equi/genética , Rifampin/farmacología
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Vet Microbiol ; 228: 129-133, 2019 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30593358

RESUMEN

The present study reports the isolation of A. hippocoleae from genital swabs of 15 apparently healthy mares (at least one had an abortion one month earlier) and describes the genotypic and phenotypic characterisation of these strains. The mares were of eight different breeds with a thoroughbred dominance and came from 11 breeding farms located in the French region of Brittany. 16S rRNA gene sequencing confirmed the species' identification by comparing it with reference strain A. hippocoleae CIP 106850T. Some degree of natural divergence within A. hippocoleae was observed by 16S rRNA sequencing (two 1,002-pb sequences), MALDI-TOF MS typing (two groups), a CAMP test (three different intensities of haemolysis from CAMP-positive results) and API® Coryne system (five profiles). The strains were all susceptible to the antimicrobials tested. A national prevalence survey would be required to estimate the frequency of A. hippocoleae carriage in mares and stallions and to verify the presence of A. hippocoleae outside the French region of Brittany, which is the only one found to be affected in the current study, probably because the isolates were recovered from a single field laboratory in this region.


Asunto(s)
Arcanobacterium/aislamiento & purificación , Caballos/microbiología , Animales , Arcanobacterium/genética , Femenino , Genitales/microbiología , Genotipo , Espectrometría de Masas/veterinaria , Fenotipo , Filogenia , ARN Bacteriano/genética , ARN Ribosómico 16S/genética , Especificidad de la Especie , Espectrometría de Masa por Láser de Matriz Asistida de Ionización Desorción/veterinaria
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Vet Parasitol ; 264: 47-51, 2018 Dec 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30503091

RESUMEN

The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of melarsomine hydrochloride (Cymelarsan®) to cure horses suffering from a nervous form of dourine, a sexually-transmitted disease caused by Trypanosoma equiperdum. The recently described experimental model for assessing drug efficacy against horse trypanosomosis allowed us to obtain eight horses (Welsh pony mares) infected by T. equiperdum with parasites in their cerebrospinal fluid. The Cymelarsan® treatment evaluated consisted of the daily administration of 0.5 mg/kg of Cymelarsan® over 7 days. Two control horses remained untreated, three horses received the treatment 36 days p.i. and three horses received the treatment 16 days p.i. Following treatment, we observed parasite clearance in blood, stabilization of rectal temperature and a relative improvement in the mean packed cell volume levels for all treated horses. However, live parasites were later observed again in the CSF of all treated horses. Our results indicate the inability of Cymelarsan® to reach Trypanozoon located in the central nervous system of infected horses and thus discourage the use of Cymelarsan® to treat animals suffering from a nervous form of dourine.


Asunto(s)
Arsenicales/uso terapéutico , Líquido Cefalorraquídeo/parasitología , Durina (Veterinaria)/líquido cefalorraquídeo , Durina (Veterinaria)/tratamiento farmacológico , Enfermedades de los Caballos/líquido cefalorraquídeo , Enfermedades de los Caballos/tratamiento farmacológico , Animales , Arsenicales/normas , Femenino , Enfermedades de los Caballos/parasitología , Caballos/líquido cefalorraquídeo , Caballos/parasitología , Insuficiencia del Tratamiento , Trypanosoma/fisiología
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Vet Parasitol ; 263: 27-33, 2018 Nov 15.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30389021

RESUMEN

Trypanosoma equiperdum, the causative agent of dourine, may affect the central nervous system, leading to neurological signs in infected horses. This location protects the parasite from most (if not all) existing chemotherapies. In this context, the OIE terrestrial code considers dourine as a non-treatable disease and imposes a stamping-out policy for affected animals before a country may achieve its dourine-free status. The use of practices as drastic as euthanasia remains controversial, but the lack of a suitable tool for studying a treatment's efficacy against dourine hampers the development of an alternative strategy for dourine infection management. The present study reports on the development of an experimental infection model for assessing drug efficacy against the nervous form of dourine. The model combines the infection of horses by Trypanosoma equiperdum and the search for trypanosomes in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) through an ultrasound-guided cervical sampling protocol. After a development phase involving four horses, we established an infection model that consists of inoculating 5 × 104T. equiperdum OVI parasites intravenously into adult Welsh mares (Equus caballus). To evaluate its efficacy, eight horses were infected according to this model. In all these animals, parasites were observed in the blood at 2 days post-inoculation (p.i.) and in CSF (12.5 ± 1.6 days p.i.) and seroconversion was detected (8.25 ± 0.5 days p.i.). All eight animals also developed fever (rectal temperature > 39 °C), low hematocrit (< 27%), and ventral edema (7.9 ± 2.0 days p.i.), together with other inconstant clinical signs such as edema of the vulva (six out of eight horses) or cutaneous plaques (three out of eight horses). This model provides a robust infection protocol that induces an acute trypanosome infection and that allows parasites to be detected in the CSF of infected horses within a period of time compatible with animal experimentation constraints. We conclude that this model constitutes a suitable tool for analyzing the efficacy of anti-Trypanosoma drugs and vaccines.


Asunto(s)
Durina (Veterinaria)/tratamiento farmacológico , Enfermedades de los Caballos/tratamiento farmacológico , Caballos/parasitología , Trypanosoma/efectos de los fármacos , Anemia , Animales , Anticuerpos Antiprotozoarios/sangre , Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Durina (Veterinaria)/líquido cefalorraquídeo , Durina (Veterinaria)/parasitología , Evaluación de Medicamentos , Femenino , Enfermedades de los Caballos/parasitología , Trypanosoma/aislamiento & purificación
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Vet Rec ; 183(3): 96, 2018 07 21.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29695449

RESUMEN

The performance of culture and PCR methods routinely used to diagnose contagious equine metritis (CEM) was evaluated and compared by two interlaboratory trials involving a total of 24 European laboratories, including 22 National Reference Laboratories for CEM. Samples were swab specimens artificially contaminated with bacteria present in the genital tract of Equidae, some with and some without Taylorella equigenitalis, the causative agent of CEM, and T asinigenitalis, responsible for possible misidentification as T equigenitalis Throughout both interlaboratory trials, PCR performed better in terms of specificity and sensitivity than the culture method, supporting the assertion that PCR should be accepted for CEM diagnosis. However, the culture performance during the second interlaboratory trial was better than during the first one, suggesting that the expertise of participants improved. This reveals the advantage of regular interlaboratory trials to constantly improve the expertise of laboratories. It also shows the need to develop new culture media that are more selective and/or better geared to the metabolism of T equigenitalis in order to improve the bacteriological diagnosis of CEM.


Asunto(s)
Técnicas de Cultivo/veterinaria , Endometritis/veterinaria , Enfermedades de los Caballos/diagnóstico , Laboratorios/organización & administración , Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa/veterinaria , Animales , Endometritis/diagnóstico , Europa (Continente) , Femenino , Enfermedades de los Caballos/microbiología , Caballos , Sensibilidad y Especificidad , Taylorella equigenitalis/aislamiento & purificación
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Vet Microbiol ; 210: 64-70, 2017 Oct.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29103698

RESUMEN

Rhodococcus equi causes pulmonary and extrapulmonary infections in animals and humans, with endemic situations and significant young foal mortality in stud farms worldwide. Despite its economic impact in the horse-breeding industry, the broad geographic and host distribution, global diversity and population structure of R. equi remain poorly characterised. In this context, we developed a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme using 89 clinical and environmental R. equi of various origins and eight Rhodococcus sp. Data can be accessed at http://pubmlst.org/rhodococcus/. A clonal R. equi population was observed with 16 out of 37 sequence types (STs) grouped into six clonal complexes (CC) based on single-locus variants. One of the six CCs (CC3) is not host-specific, suggesting potential exchanges between different R. equi reservoirs. Most of the virulent equine R. equi CCs/unlinked STs were plasmid-type-specific. Despite this, marked genetic variability with the circulation of multiple R. equi genotypes was generally observed even within the same animal. Focusing on outbreaks, data indicated (i) the potential contagious transmission of R. equi during the 2012-Mayotte equine outbreak because of the poor genotype diversity of clinical strains; (ii) a potential porcine outbreak among the 30 Belgian farms investigated in 2013. This first Rhodococcus equi MLST is a powerful tool for further epidemiological investigations and population biology studies of R. equi isolates.


Asunto(s)
Infecciones por Actinomycetales/veterinaria , Enfermedades de los Caballos/microbiología , Tipificación de Secuencias Multilocus/veterinaria , Rhodococcus equi/clasificación , Infecciones por Actinomycetales/epidemiología , Infecciones por Actinomycetales/microbiología , Alelos , Animales , Proteínas Bacterianas/genética , Técnicas de Tipificación Bacteriana/métodos , Técnicas de Tipificación Bacteriana/veterinaria , Genes Esenciales/genética , Variación Genética , Genotipo , Enfermedades de los Caballos/epidemiología , Caballos , Tipificación de Secuencias Multilocus/métodos , Plásmidos/genética , Rhodococcus equi/genética
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J Genomics ; 5: 1-3, 2017.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28138343

RESUMEN

Trypanosoma equiperdum is the causative agent of dourine, a sexually-transmitted infection of horses. This parasite belongs to the subgenus Trypanozoon that also includes the agent of sleeping sickness (Trypanosoma brucei) and surra (Trypanosoma evansi). We herein report the genome sequence of a T. equiperdum strain OVI, isolated from a horse in South-Africa in 1976. This is the first genome sequence of the T. equiperdum species, and its availability will provide important insights for future studies on genetic classification of the subgenus Trypanozoon.

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J Clin Microbiol ; 53(1): 287-91, 2015 Jan.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25339390

RESUMEN

This study shows that an unbiased amplification method applied to equine arteritis virus RNA significantly improves the sensitivity of the real-time reverse transcription-quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) recommended by the World Organization for Animal Health. Twelve viral RNAs amplified using this method were hybridized on a high-density resequencing microarray for effective viral characterization.


Asunto(s)
Infecciones por Arterivirus/virología , Equartevirus , Técnicas de Genotipaje/métodos , Enfermedades de los Caballos/virología , Análisis de Secuencia por Matrices de Oligonucleótidos/métodos , Virología/métodos , Animales , Infecciones por Arterivirus/diagnóstico , Infecciones por Arterivirus/veterinaria , Equartevirus/clasificación , Equartevirus/genética , Enfermedades de los Caballos/diagnóstico , Caballos , Filogenia
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Genome Announc ; 2(6)2014 Nov 26.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25428969

RESUMEN

Taylorella equigenitalis is the causative agent of contagious equine metritis (CEM), a sexually transmitted infection of horses. We herein report the genome sequence of T. equigenitalis strain MCE529, isolated in 2009 from the urethral fossa of a 15-year-old Belgian Warmblood horse in France.

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BMC Microbiol ; 14: 69, 2014 Mar 19.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24641089

RESUMEN

BACKGROUND: Taylorella equigenitalis is the causative agent of contagious equine metritis, a sexually-transmitted infection of Equidae characterised in infected mares by abundant mucopurulent vaginal discharge and a variable degree of vaginitis, cervicitis or endometritis, usually resulting in temporary infertility. The second species of the Taylorella genus, Taylorella asinigenitalis, is considered non-pathogenic, although mares experimentally infected with this bacterium can develop clinical signs of endometritis. To date, little is understood about the basic molecular virulence and persistence mechanisms employed by the Taylorella species. To clarify these points, we investigated whether the host-pathogen interaction model Acanthamoeba castellanii was a suitable model for studying taylorellae. RESULTS: We herein demonstrate that both species of the Taylorella genus are internalised by a mechanism involving the phagocytic capacity of the amoeba and are able to survive for at least one week inside the amoeba. During this one-week incubation period, taylorellae concentrations remain strikingly constant and no overt toxicity to amoeba cells was observed. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides the first evidence of the capacity of taylorellae to survive in a natural environment other than the mammalian genital tract, and shows that the alternative infection model, A. castellanii, constitutes a relevant alternative system to assess host-pathogen interactions of taylorellae. The survival of taylorellae inside the potential environmental reservoir A. castellanii brings new insight, fostering a broader understanding of taylorellae biology and its potential natural ecological niche.


Asunto(s)
Acanthamoeba castellanii/microbiología , Viabilidad Microbiana , Fagocitosis , Taylorella/fisiología , Acanthamoeba castellanii/fisiología
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Curr Microbiol ; 68(3): 352-7, 2014 Mar.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24170270

RESUMEN

Lysozyme is an important and widespread component of the innate immune response that constitutes the first line of defense against bacterial pathogens. The bactericidal effect of this enzyme relies on its capacity to hydrolyze the bacterial cell wall and also on a nonenzymatic mechanism involving its cationic antimicrobial peptide (CAMP) properties, which leads to membrane permeabilization. In this paper, we report our findings on the lysozyme resistance ability of Rhodococcus equi, a pulmonary pathogen of young foals and, more recently, of immunocompromised patients, whose pathogenic capacity is conferred by a large virulence plasmid. Our results show that (i) R. equi can be considered to be moderately resistant to lysozyme, (ii) the activity of lysozyme largely depends on its muramidase action rather than on its CAMP activity, and (iii) the virulence plasmid confers part of its lysozyme resistance capacity to R. equi. This study is the first one to demonstrate the influence of the virulence plasmid on the stress resistance capacity of R. equi and improves our understanding of the mechanisms enabling R. equi to resist the host defenses.


Asunto(s)
Péptidos Catiónicos Antimicrobianos/metabolismo , Farmacorresistencia Bacteriana , Muramidasa/metabolismo , Rhodococcus equi/efectos de los fármacos , Genes Bacterianos , Plásmidos , Rhodococcus equi/genética
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Vet Microbiol ; 167(3-4): 609-18, 2013 Dec 27.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24139720

RESUMEN

We describe here the development of a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for Taylorella equigenitalis, the causative agent of contagious equine metritis (CEM), and Taylorella asinigenitalis, a nonpathogenic bacterium. MLST was performed on a set of 163 strains collected in several countries over 35 years (1977-2012). The MLST data were analyzed using START2, MEGA 5.05 and eBURST, and can be accessed at http://pubmlst.org/taylorella/. Our results revealed a clonal population with 39 sequence types (ST) and no common ST between the two Taylorella species. The eBURST analysis grouped the 27 T. equigenitalis STs into four clonal complexes (CC1-4) and five unlinked STs. The 12 T. asinigenitalis STs were grouped into three clonal complexes (CC5-7) and five unlinked STs, among which CC1 (68.1% of the 113 T. equigenitalis) and CC5 (58.0% of the 50 T. asinigenitalis) were dominants. The CC1, still in circulation in France, contains isolates from the first CEM outbreaks that simultaneously emerged in several countries in the late 1970s. The emergence in different countries (e.g. France, Japan, and United Arab Emirates) of STs without any genetic relationship to CC1 suggests the existence of a natural worldwide reservoir that remains to be identified. T. asinigenitalis appears to behave same way since the American, Swedish and French isolates have unrelated STs. This first Taylorella sp. MLST is a powerful tool for further epidemiological investigations and population biology studies of the Taylorella genus.


Asunto(s)
Técnicas de Tipificación Bacteriana/métodos , Infecciones por Bacterias Gramnegativas/veterinaria , Enfermedades de los Caballos/microbiología , Tipificación de Secuencias Multilocus/veterinaria , Taylorella/clasificación , Taylorella/genética , Animales , Femenino , Genes Bacterianos/genética , Variación Genética , Infecciones por Bacterias Gramnegativas/microbiología , Caballos/genética , Masculino , Tipificación Molecular , Filogenia , Taylorella/aislamiento & purificación , Taylorella equigenitalis/clasificación , Taylorella equigenitalis/genética , Taylorella equigenitalis/aislamiento & purificación
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Antimicrob Agents Chemother ; 57(10): 4615-21, 2013 Oct.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23817377

RESUMEN

Rhodococcus equi, the causal agent of rhodococcosis, is a major pathogen of foals and is also responsible for severe infections in immunocompromised humans. Of great concern, strains resistant to currently used antibiotics have emerged. As the number of drugs that are efficient in vivo is limited because of the intracellular localization of the bacterium inside macrophages, new active but cell-permeant drugs will be needed in the near future. In the present study, we evaluated, by in vitro and ex vivo experiments, the ability of the alpha-helical equine antimicrobial peptide eCATH1 to kill intracellular bacterial cells. Moreover, the therapeutic potential of the peptide was assessed in experimental rhodococcosis induced in mice, while the in vivo toxicity was evaluated by behavioral and histopathological analysis. The study revealed that eCATH1 significantly reduced the number of bacteria inside macrophages. Furthermore, the bactericidal potential of the peptide was maintained in vivo at doses that appeared to have no visible deleterious effects for the mice even after 7 days of treatment. Indeed, daily subcutaneous injections of 1 mg/kg body weight of eCATH1 led to a significant reduction of the bacterial load in organs comparable to that obtained after treatment with 10 mg/kg body weight of rifampin. Interestingly, the combination of the peptide with rifampin showed a synergistic interaction in both ex vivo and in vivo experiments. These results emphasize the therapeutic potential that eCATH1 represents in the treatment of rhodococcosis.


Asunto(s)
Infecciones por Actinomycetales/tratamiento farmacológico , Antiinfecciosos/uso terapéutico , Rhodococcus equi/patogenicidad , Animales , Línea Celular , Macrófagos Peritoneales/microbiología , Ratones , Ratones Endogámicos BALB C , Microscopía Fluorescente , Rhodococcus equi/efectos de los fármacos , Rifampin/uso terapéutico
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PLoS One ; 7(8): e42396, 2012.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22879963

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Rhodococcus equi is one of the most widespread causes of disease in foals aged from 1 to 6 months. R. equi possesses antioxidant defense mechanisms to protect it from reactive oxygen metabolites such as hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) generated during the respiratory burst of phagocytic cells. These defense mechanisms include enzymes such as catalase, which detoxify hydrogen peroxide. Recently, an analysis of the R. equi 103 genome sequence revealed the presence of four potential catalase genes. We first constructed ΔkatA-, ΔkatB-, ΔkatC-and ΔkatD-deficient mutants to study the ability of R. equi to survive exposure to H(2)O(2)in vitro and within mouse peritoneal macrophages. Results showed that ΔkatA and, to a lesser extent ΔkatC, were affected by 80 mM H(2)O(2). Moreover, katA deletion seems to significantly affect the ability of R. equi to survive within murine macrophages. We finally investigated the expression of the four catalases in response to H(2)O(2) assays with a real time PCR technique. Results showed that katA is overexpressed 367.9 times (± 122.6) in response to exposure to 50 mM of H(2)O(2) added in the stationary phase, and 3.11 times (± 0.59) when treatment was administered in the exponential phase. In untreated bacteria, katB, katC and katD were overexpressed from 4.3 to 17.5 times in the stationary compared to the exponential phase. Taken together, our results show that KatA is the major catalase involved in the extreme H(2)O(2) resistance capability of R. equi.


Asunto(s)
Catalasa/genética , Genes Bacterianos/genética , Peróxido de Hidrógeno/farmacología , Rhodococcus equi/efectos de los fármacos , Rhodococcus equi/genética , Animales , Eliminación de Gen , Regulación Bacteriana de la Expresión Génica/efectos de los fármacos , Macrófagos/efectos de los fármacos , Macrófagos/microbiología , Masculino , Ratones , Ratones Endogámicos BALB C , Viabilidad Microbiana/efectos de los fármacos , Filogenia , Rhodococcus equi/enzimología , Rhodococcus equi/crecimiento & desarrollo
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Antimicrob Agents Chemother ; 56(4): 1749-55, 2012 Apr.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22232283

RESUMEN

Rhodococcus equi, the causal agent of rhodococcosis, is a severe pathogen of foals but also of immunodeficient humans, causing bronchopneumonia. The pathogen is often found together with Klebsiella pneumoniae or Streptococcus zooepidemicus in foals. Of great concern is the fact that some R. equi strains are already resistant to commonly used antibiotics. In the present study, we evaluated the in vitro potential of two equine antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), eCATH1 and DEFA1, as new drugs against R. equi and its associated pathogens. The peptides led to growth inhibition and death of R. equi and S. zooepidemicus at low micromolar concentrations. Moreover, eCATH1 was able to inhibit growth of K. pneumoniae. Both peptides caused rapid disruption of the R. equi membrane, leading to cell lysis. Interestingly, eCATH1 had a synergic effect together with rifampin. Furthermore, eCATH1 was not cytotoxic against mammalian cells at bacteriolytic concentrations and maintained its high killing activity even at physiological salt concentrations. Our data suggest that equine AMPs, especially eCATH1, may be promising candidates for alternative drugs to control R. equi in mono- and coinfections.


Asunto(s)
Infecciones por Actinomycetales/tratamiento farmacológico , Infecciones por Actinomycetales/microbiología , Antibacterianos/farmacología , Enfermedades de los Caballos/tratamiento farmacológico , Enfermedades de los Caballos/microbiología , Rhodococcus equi , alfa-Defensinas/farmacología , Infecciones por Actinomycetales/veterinaria , Animales , Antibacterianos/química , Supervivencia Celular/efectos de los fármacos , Chlorocebus aethiops , Dicroismo Circular , Farmacorresistencia Bacteriana , Sinergismo Farmacológico , Femenino , Hemólisis , Caballos , Liposomas/química , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana , Microscopía Electrónica de Rastreo , Fosfolípidos/química , Rhodococcus equi/efectos de los fármacos , Rhodococcus equi/ultraestructura , Tolerancia a la Sal , Ovinos , Células Vero , alfa-Defensinas/química
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PLoS One ; 7(1): e29953, 2012.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22235352

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The Taylorella genus comprises two species: Taylorella equigenitalis, which causes contagious equine metritis, and Taylorella asinigenitalis, a closely-related species mainly found in donkeys. We herein report on the first genome sequence of T. asinigenitalis, analyzing and comparing it with the recently-sequenced T. equigenitalis genome. The T. asinigenitalis genome contains a single circular chromosome of 1,638,559 bp with a 38.3% GC content and 1,534 coding sequences (CDS). While 212 CDSs were T. asinigenitalis-specific, 1,322 had orthologs in T. equigenitalis. Two hundred and thirty-four T. equigenitalis CDSs had no orthologs in T. asinigenitalis. Analysis of the basic nutrition metabolism of both Taylorella species showed that malate, glutamate and alpha-ketoglutarate may be their main carbon and energy sources. For both species, we identified four different secretion systems and several proteins potentially involved in binding and colonization of host cells, suggesting a strong potential for interaction with their host. T. equigenitalis seems better-equipped than T. asinigenitalis in terms of virulence since we identified numerous proteins potentially involved in pathogenicity, including hemagluttinin-related proteins, a type IV secretion system, TonB-dependent lactoferrin and transferrin receptors, and YadA and Hep_Hag domains containing proteins. This is the first molecular characterization of Taylorella genus members, and the first molecular identification of factors potentially involved in T. asinigenitalis and T. equigenitalis pathogenicity and host colonization. This study facilitates a genetic understanding of growth phenotypes, animal host preference and pathogenic capacity, paving the way for future functional investigations into this largely unknown genus.


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Genoma Bacteriano/genética , Genómica/métodos , Taylorella/genética , Proteínas Bacterianas/genética , Proteínas Bacterianas/metabolismo , Burkholderia/clasificación , Burkholderia/genética , Carbono/metabolismo , Estrés Oxidativo/genética , Filogenia , Alineación de Secuencia , Especificidad de la Especie , Taylorella/metabolismo , Factores de Virulencia/genética
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Res Vet Sci ; 93(1): 172-6, 2012 Aug.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21621231

RESUMEN

Rhodococcus equi remains a significant pathogen, causing severe pneumonia in foals. The development of vaccines and serologic diagnosis could be greatly facilitated by studying the humoral immune response to this equine pathogen. In this study, a crude extract of R. equi ATCC 33701-secreted proteins combined with the Montanide® ISA70 adjuvant was found to be highly immunogenic in mice with the highest titer of 99,000 on day 42 after the first subcutaneous immunization. This immune response was dependent on the quantity of proteins injected and the presence of adjuvant. By dot-blotting, eight recombinant secreted proteins were identified to react strongly with sera from immunized mice. Of these eight proteins, four were detected as immunogenic only when administered in conjunction with adjuvant. This screening strategy led to the identification of promising new candidates for vaccine development.


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Infecciones por Actinomycetales/inmunología , Antígenos Bacterianos/inmunología , Proteínas Bacterianas/inmunología , Rhodococcus equi/inmunología , Adyuvantes Inmunológicos/farmacología , Animales , Anticuerpos Antibacterianos/inmunología , Antígenos Bacterianos/farmacología , Proteínas Bacterianas/metabolismo , Relación Dosis-Respuesta Inmunológica , Femenino , Inmunidad Humoral/inmunología , Inmunización , Immunoblotting , Ratones , Proteínas Recombinantes/inmunología , Proteínas Recombinantes/farmacología
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