Molecular Analysis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa : Epidemiological Investigation of Mastitis Outbreaks in Irish Dairy Herds

Author:

Daly M.1,Power E.2,Björkroth J.3,Sheehan P.2,O’Connell A.2,Colgan M.2,Korkeala H.3,Fanning S.1

Affiliation:

1. Molecular Diagnostics Unit, Cork Institute of Technology,1 and

2. Regional Veterinary Laboratory, Department of Agriculture and Food,2 Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland, and

3. Department of Food and Environmental Hygiene, FIN-00014 Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland3

Abstract

ABSTRACT Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a pathogen in both humans and animals. This bacterium, most often associated with respiratory infections in cystic fibrosis patients, was found to be the causative agent in bovine mastitis outbreaks among 11 Irish dairy herds. Epidemiological findings suggested that the infection was spread to all herds by teat wipes that had been contaminated with this organism. Two molecular-typing strategies were used in an attempt to determine the genomic relationship(s), if any, of the P. aeruginosa strains isolated from the various herds and to verify whether the same strain was responsible for each outbreak. Thirty-six isolates from the mastitis outbreaks were tested and compared to fourteen clinical isolates from Cork University Hospital. With one exception, all outbreak-linked strains produced identical patterns when ribotyped with Cla I and Pvu II enzymes. Eight of the clinical isolates gave the same Cla I ribotype pattern as the mastitis-causing strains. However, Pvu II proved more discriminatory, with only the outbreak isolates producing identical patterns. Similar results were obtained with RW3A-primed DNA amplification fingerprinting, with all outbreak isolates except one displaying the same fingerprint array. The clinical strains produced several fingerprint patterns, all of which were different from those of the mastitis-causing isolates. Fine-resolution DNA fingerprinting with a fluorescence-labelled RW3A primer also identified a number of low-molecular-weight polymorphisms that would have remained undetected by conventional methods. These data support the view that the same P. aeruginosa strain was responsible for the mastitis outbreaks in all 11 herds.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

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