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- Dwibedi, Chinmay Kumar,1987-Umeå universitet,Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi,Molekylär Infektionsmedicin, Sverige (MIMS),Swedish Defence Research Agency,Anders Johansson (author)
Francisella tularensis: persistence, dissemination and source attribution : a theoretical and computational approach
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- Umeå :Umeå University,2019
- 47 s.
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- LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:umu-156079
- ISBN:9789178550272
- https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-156079URI
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- Umeå University medical dissertations,0346-6612 ;2017
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- The bacterium Francisella tularensis causing tularemia in humans and other mammals displays little genetic diversity among genomes across temporal and spatial scales. F. tularensis infects humans with an extremely low infectious dose and causes natural seasonal tularemia outbreaks. During the Cold War, this bacterium was developed as a biological weapon.In paper I, we aimed at investigating the genetic diversity of F. tularensis over space and time and were especially interested in the influence of spatial dispersal on the genetic diversity. By analyses of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) among 205 F. tularensis genomes, we found that tularemia had moved from East to West over the European continent by dispersal patterns characterized by multiple long-range dispersal events. Evolutionary rate estimates based on the year of bacterial isolation from 1947 to 2012 indicated non-measurable rates. In outbreak areas with multiple recent outbreaks, however, there was a measurable rate of 0.4 SNPs/genome/year indicating that in areas with more intense disease activity, there is a detectable evolutionary rate. The findings suggest that long-range geographical dispersal events and mostly very low evolutionary rates are important factors contributing to a very low genetic diversity of F. tularensis populations.In paper II, we focused on a geographically restricted area with a history of frequent tularemia outbreaks to study F. tularensis persistence. By analyzing F. tularensis genomes from 138 individuals infected from 1994 to 2010 in Örebro County in Sweden and performing a long-term laboratory storage experiment, we explored the microbial population concept of a pathogen seed-bank. We found that eight indistinguishable genomes – each of them defined by no SNPs across 1.65 million whole-genome nucleotides – locally persisted over 2-9 years. We found unmeasurable SNP accumulation rates and overlapping bacterial generations among the outbreak genomes and that F. tularensis survived in saline for four years without nutrients. By these findings, and analyses of nucleotide substitution patterns, we suggest that a pathogen seed-bank effect is an important feature of F. tularensis ecology influencing genetic diversity.In paper III, we developed a new concept for source attribution of a F. tularensis sample. We aimed to identify genetic variation that is characteristic to laboratory culturing and we used culture amplification to identify genetic variation present at exceedingly low frequencies in a sample. Based on a biological enrichment scheme followed by high-throughput sequencing, we could track genetic variation back to a source sample. These results suggest that the concept has potential for linking a F. tularensis sample to its laboratory source sample.Taken together, the results presented in this thesis provide new understanding of the dissemination patterns and local persistence of tularemia. This is important for the interpretation of molecular epidemiology investigations of the disease. In a wider context, the results demonstrate how spatial dispersal and a microbial seed-bank effect may contribute to the diversity of a disease-causing agent. Finally, we have described a promising concept for source attribution of F. tularensis samples
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP Medicinsk bioteknologi Medicinsk bioteknologi hsv//swe
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES Medical Biotechnology Medical Biotechnology hsv//eng
- Francisella
- genomics
- evolution
- microbial forensics
- dispersal
- persistence
- mikrobiologi
- Microbiology
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- Johansson, Anders,Lektor,1966-Umeå universitet,Institutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi,Molekylär Infektionsmedicin, Sverige (MIMS)(Swepub:umu)anjo0135 (thesis advisor)
- Larsson, PärUmeå universitet,Klinisk bakteriologi,Medicinsk och klinisk genetik(Swepub:umu)pala0006 (thesis advisor)
- Antwerpen, Markus,Dr. rer . natBundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany (opponent)
- Umeå universitetInstitutionen för klinisk mikrobiologi (creator_code:org_t)
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