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Volume 16, Number 1—January 2010
Dispatch

Human Listeriosis Caused by Listeria ivanovii

Christelle Guillet, Olivier Join-Lambert, Alban Le Monnier, Alexandre Leclercq, Frédéric Mechaï, Marie-France Mamzer-Bruneel, Magdalena K. Bielecka, Mariela Scortti, Olivier Disson, Patrick Berche, José Vazquez-Boland1, Olivier Lortholary1, and Marc LecuitComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France (C. Guillet, O. Join-Lambert, F. Mechaï, M.-F. Mamzer-Bruneel, P. Berche, O. Lortholary, M. Lecuit); Hôpital Necker–Enfants Malades, Paris (C. Guillet, O. Join-Lambert, F. Mechaï, M.-F. Mamzer-Bruneel, P. Berche, O. Lortholary, M. Lecuit); Institut Pasteur, Paris (A. Le Monnier, A. Leclercq, O. Disson, M. Lecuit); University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (M. K. Bielecka, M. Scortti, J. Vazquez-Boland); Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain (M. Scortti); Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris (O. Disson, M. Lecuit); and Universidad de Léon, Léon, Spain (J. Vazquez-Boland)

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Characterization of the Listeria ivanovii subsp. ivanovii isolates from a 55-year-old man with gastroenteritis and bacteremia. A) The 4 isolates, 07/00250, 07/00251, and 07/00252 from blood, and 07/00253 from feces, were analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) with ApaI and SmaI restriction enzymes (9). The L. ivanovii subsp. ivanovii type strain American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) 19119 was used as control. Profiles were compared according to band positions by using the Dice coe

Figure. Characterization of the Listeria ivanovii subsp. ivanovii isolates from a 55-year-old man with gastroenteritis and bacteremia. A) The 4 isolates, 07/00250, 07/00251, and 07/00252 from blood, and 07/00253 from feces, were analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) with ApaI and SmaI restriction enzymes (9). The L. ivanovii subsp. ivanovii type strain American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) 19119 was used as control. Profiles were compared according to band positions by using the Dice coefficient and were clustered by using unweighted pair–group method averages. Criterion of dissimilarity = 1 band difference (maximum position tolerance 1.5%). B) L. ivanovii–specific virulence locus LIPI-2 and its phenotypic marker (sphingomyelinase production as shown by a CAMP-like test with an indicator strain of Rhodococcus equi on sheep blood agar). Left, genetic structure of LIPI-2. Arrowheads indicate positions of the oligonucleotide primers used in the 19 intragenic and intergenic PCRs to map the locus in the isolates; arrows represent genes (those belonging to LIPI-2 are gray, the sphingomyelinase gene is black, and flanking genes from the core listerial genome are white) (10). Right, typical shovel-shaped synergistic hemolysis reactions caused by L. ivanovii sphingomyelinase in the presence of R. equi cholesterol oxidase compared with the negative reaction given by L. monocytogenes (Lm). C) Invasion (gentamicin protection) assays in bovine (Madin-Darby bovine kidney) and human (HeLa) epithelial cells. The human isolates were compared with ruminant isolates ATCC 19119, PAM 55, and PAM 19 and with the L. monocytogenes strain P14A. Error bars indicate SEM of at least 2 duplicate experiments.

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