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Gonococcal Genetic Island in the Global <i>Neisseria gonorrhoeae</i> Population: A Model of Genetic Diversity and Association with Resistance to Antimicrobials
oleh: Dmitry Kravtsov, Dmitry Gryadunov, Boris Shaskolskiy
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Diterbitkan: | MDPI AG 2023-06-01 |
Deskripsi
The aim of this work was to study the genetic diversity of the gonococcal genetic island (GGI) responsible for the type IV secretion system (T4SS) and the association of a functionally active GGI with antimicrobial resistance. An analysis of the GGI in a sample of 14,763 genomes of <i>N. gonorrhoeae</i> isolates from the Pathogenwatch database collected in 1996–2019 from 68 countries was performed. A model of GGI’s genetic diversity that divides the global gonococcal population into fifty-one GGI clusters and three GGI superclusters based on the allele type of the <i>traG</i> gene and substitutions of the <i>atlA</i> and <i>ych</i> genes for <i>eppA</i> and <i>ych1</i> has been proposed, reflecting differences among isolates in the T4SS functionality. The NG-MAST and MLST typing schemes (with accuracies of 91% and 83%, respectively) allowed the determination of both the presence of a GGI and the GGI cluster and, correspondingly, the structure of the GGI and the ability to secrete DNA. A statistically significant difference in the proportion of <i>N. gonorrhoeae</i> isolates resistant to ciprofloxacin, cefixime, tetracycline, and penicillin was found when comparing populations with a functional and a non-functional GGI. The presence of a functional GGI did not affect the proportion of azithromycin-resistant isolates.