Increased Sporulation Rate of Epidemic Clostridium difficile Type 027/NAP1

Author:

Åkerlund Thomas1,Persson Ingela1,Unemo Magnus2,Norén Torbjörn3,Svenungsson Bo4,Wullt Marlene5,Burman Lars G.1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

2. Department of Clinical Microbiology

3. Department of Infectious Diseases, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden

4. Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

5. Department of Clinical Sciences, Infectious Disease Research Unit, Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Abstract

ABSTRACT Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 027 comprised 0.2% of a collection of Swedish isolates in 1997-2001 (3 of 1,325 isolates). These isolates had lower moxifloxacin MICs than the epidemic type 027 isolates, but they had the same tcdC sequence and toxin yield. Type 027 produced 3- to 13-fold more toxin than did major Swedish types. One epidemic strain (027/NAP1a) sporulated more than did other type 027 isolates, a feature that should contribute to its survival and spread.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

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