Genomic analysis of a Raoultella ornithinolytica strain causing prosthetic joint infection in an immunocompetent patient

Sci Rep. 2018 Jun 21;8(1):9462. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-27833-z.

Abstract

We sequenced the genome of Raoultella ornithinolytica strain Marseille-P1025 that caused a rare case of prosthetic joint infection in a 67-year-old immunocompetent male. The 6.7-Mb genome exhibited a genomic island (RoGI) that was unique among R. ornithinolytica strains. RoGI was likely acquired by lateral gene transfer from a member of the Pectobacterium genus and coded for a type IVa secretion system found in other pathogenic bacteria and that may have conferred strain Marseille-P1025 an increased virulence. Strain Marseille-P1025 was also able to infect, multiply within, and kill Acanthamoaeba castellanii amoebae.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Enterobacteriaceae / classification
  • Enterobacteriaceae / genetics*
  • Enterobacteriaceae / isolation & purification
  • Enterobacteriaceae / pathogenicity
  • Enterobacteriaceae Infections / microbiology*
  • Gene Transfer, Horizontal
  • Genome, Bacterial*
  • Genomic Islands
  • Humans
  • Joint Prosthesis / microbiology
  • Male
  • Phylogeny
  • Prosthesis-Related Infections / microbiology*