April 2014
Volume 55, Issue 13
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   April 2014
Genetic relatedness of Enterococcus faecalis between eye-associated isolates and the other clinical isolates
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Daisuke Todokoro
    Ophthalmology, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
  • Hisoshi Eguchi
    Institute of Health Bioscience, University of Tokushima Graduate School of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan
  • Motoo Suzuki
    Microbiology, Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa, Japan
  • Takashi Suzuki
    Ophthalmology, Ehime University School of Medicine, Matsuyama, Japan
  • Shinichiro Kobayakawa
    Ophthalmology, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
  • Saichi Hoshi
    Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Fujieda Municipal General Hospital, Japan
  • Tomoyuki Inoue
    Ophthalmology, Ehime University School of Medicine, Matsuyama, Japan
  • Ryohei Nejima
    Miyata Eye Hospital, Miyakonojo, Japan
  • Tomomi Kuwahara
    Microbiology, Kagawa University Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa, Japan
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    Commercial Relationships Daisuke Todokoro, None; Hisoshi Eguchi, None; Motoo Suzuki, None; Takashi Suzuki, None; Shinichiro Kobayakawa, None; Saichi Hoshi, None; Tomoyuki Inoue, None; Ryohei Nejima, None; Tomomi Kuwahara, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science April 2014, Vol.55, 1479. doi:
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      Daisuke Todokoro, Hisoshi Eguchi, Motoo Suzuki, Takashi Suzuki, Shinichiro Kobayakawa, Saichi Hoshi, Tomoyuki Inoue, Ryohei Nejima, Tomomi Kuwahara, Ocular Microbiology Infection Conference (OMIC); Genetic relatedness of Enterococcus faecalis between eye-associated isolates and the other clinical isolates. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2014;55(13):1479.

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Abstract

Purpose: Enterococci are commensal bacteria of human intestine and known as a leading cause of nosocomial infection. They are rarely isolated from ocular samples including conjunctival swab, discharge and intraocular fluid of endophthalmitis. However, the origin of such ocular isolates is not known. We performed multilocus sequence typing (MLST) analysis against Enterococcus faecalis isolates from various source to know whether eye-associated strains belonged to specific phylogenetic clusters or not. Closely related strains by MLST were further investigated the clonality by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and plasmid DNA analysis.

Methods: The 15 ocular isolates from conjunctival swabs, intraocular lenses removed from eyes with endophthalmitis and discharges from dry-eye patients and the 13 non-ocular clinical isolates from blood, throat swab, urine, vaginal discharge, feces and peritoneal fluid were used as bacterial strains. All strains were E. faecalis. Five housekeeping genes (gdh, gyd, pstS, gki, aroE) were amplified by PCR, sequenced and then applied to MLST analysis. The obtained nucleotide sequences were aligned and compared by using Clustal W program. A phylogenetic tree was constructed by the neighbor-joining method. PFGE and agarose gel electrophoresis of plasmid DNA were carried out against strains belonging the same sequence types (STs).

Results: MLST analysis revealed that the 28 E. faecalis strains were divided into 11 STs. The ocular isolates did not compose any specific genetic clusters. Several ocular strains were closely related with non-ocular clinical isolates. One of the dry-eye patient had retained the identical strain in her conjunctival sacs for about a year.

Conclusions: E. faecalis isolated from eyes were related with general clinical isolates. There were no eye-specific phylogenetic clusters. Ocular surfaces with dry-eye possibly retain E. faecalis for a long time.

Keywords: 433 bacterial disease • 513 endophthalmitis  
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