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Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, January 2006, p. 139-144, Vol. 13, No. 1
1071-412X/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/CVI.13.1.139-144.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Multilocus Sequence Types, Serotypes, and Variants of the Surface Antigen PspA in Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates from Meningitis Patients in Poland

Ewa Sadowy,* Anna Skoczyñska, Janusz Fiett, Marek Gniadkowski, and Waleria Hryniewicz

National Institute of Public Health, Chelmska 30/34, 00-725 Warsaw, Poland

Received 17 August 2005/ Returned for modification 31 October 2005/ Accepted 9 November 2005

Meningitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae represents an important factor of morbidity and mortality in humans. In a significant number of cases, this disease is associated with specific clones of the organism, the so-called invasive pneumococcal clones. The aim of the study was to analyze 156 S. pneumoniae isolates identified as etiological agents of meningitis in Poland in the years 1997 through 2002. The isolates were characterized by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), and the results were compared with those obtained by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and with the MLST data on invasive pneumococci from other countries. Eighty-nine different sequence types were found in the group of isolates, 50 of which had been known before including 19 of the major invasive clones. However, a significant fraction of the isolates possessed novel combinations of known and new MLST alleles. The majority of penicillin-nonsusceptible isolates belonged to the group of international multiresistant clones (Spain23F-1, Spain6B-2, Spain9V-3, Poland23F-16, and Poland6B-20), which underlined the importance of these in the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance. The results of the MLST analysis correlated well with the PFGE data, thus again demonstrating good congruence between the two typing methods for S. pneumoniae. The majority of the isolates (95.5%) belonged to families 1 or 2 of the surface protein PspA, confirming its potential usefulness as the vaccine antigen candidate.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Molecular Microbiology, National Institute of Public Health, ul. Chelmska 30/34, 00-725 Warsaw, Poland. Phone: 48 22 851 43 88. Fax: 48 22 841 29 49. E-mail: ewasadowy{at}cls.edu.pl.

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, January 2006, p. 139-144, Vol. 13, No. 1
1071-412X/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/CVI.13.1.139-144.2006
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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