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. 2013 Nov 1:13:514.
doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-514.

Changes of predominant species/biovars and sequence types of Brucella isolates, Inner Mongolia, China

Yanfen Chen, Yuehua Ke, Yufei Wang, Xitong Yuan, Xiaoyan Zhou, Hai Jiang, Zhoujia Wang, Qing Zhen, Yaqin Yu, Liuyu Huang  1 , Buyun Cui, Zeliang Chen
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Changes of predominant species/biovars and sequence types of Brucella isolates, Inner Mongolia, China

Yanfen Chen et al. BMC Infect Dis. .

Abstract

Background: Human brucellosis incidence in China was divided into 3 stages, high incidence (1950-1960s), decline (1970-1980s) and re-emergence (1990-2000s). Human brucellosis has been reported in all the 32 provinces, of which Inner Mongolia has the highest prevalence, accounting for over 40% of the cases in China. To investigate the etiology alteration of human brucellosis in Inner Mongolia, the species, biovars and genotypes of 60 Brucella isolates from this province were analyzed.

Methods: Species and biovars of the Brucella strains isolated from outbreaks were determined based on classical identification procedures. Strains were genotyped by multi locus sequence typing (MLST). Sequences of 9 housekeeping genes were obtained and sequence types were defined. The distribution of species, biovars and sequence types (STs) among the three incidence stages were analyzed and compared.

Results: The three stages of high incidence, decline and re-emergence were predominated by B. melitensis biovar 2 and 3, B. abortus biovar 3, and B. melitensis biovar 1, respectively, implying changes in the predominant biovars. Genotyping by MLST revealed a total of 14 STs. Nine STs (from ST28 to ST36), accounting for 64.3% of all the STs, were newly defined and different from those observed in other countries. Different STs were distributed among the three stages. ST8 was the most common ST in 1950-1960s and 1990-2000s, while ST2 was the most common in 1970-1980s.

Conclusions: The prevalence of biovars and sequence types of Brucella strains from Inner Mongolia has changed over time in the three stages. Compared with those from other countries, new sequence types of Brucella strains exist in China.

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Figure 1
Phylogeny based on concatenated sequence of 9 loci showing the relationships of the 60 isolates. Sequences of each sequence type were concatenated and phylogenetic trees were analyzed by using neighbor-joining method. B. ovis was used as an outgroup.
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