Global phylogeography and evolutionary history of Shigella dysenteriae type 1

Njamkepo, Elisabeth, Fawal, Nizar, Tran-Dien, Alicia, Hawkey, Jane, Strockbine, Nancy, Jenkins, Claire, Talukder, Kaisar A., Bercion, Raymond, Kuleshov, Konstantin, Kolínská, Renáta, Russell, Julie E., Kaftyreva, Lidia, Accou-Demartin, Marie, Karas, Andreas, Vandenberg, Olivier, Mather, Alison E., Mason, Carl J., Page, Andrew J., Ramamurthy, Thandavarayan, Bizet, Chantal, Gamian, Andrzej, Carle, Isabelle, Sow, Amy Gassama, Bouchier, Christiane, Wester, Astrid Louise, Lejay-Collin, Monique, Fonkoua, Marie-Christine, Hello, Simon Le, Blaser, Martin J., Jernberg, Cecilia, Ruckly, Corinne, Mérens, Audrey, Page, Anne-laure, Aslett, Martin, Roggentin, Peter, Fruth, Angelika, Denamur, Erick, Venkatesan, Malabi, Bercovier, Hervé, Bodhidatta, Ladaporn, Chiou, Chien-shun, Clermont, Dominique, Colonna, Bianca, Egorova, Svetlana, Pazhani, Gururaja P., Ezernitchi, Analia V., Guigon, Ghislaine, Harris, Simon R., Izumiya, Hidemasa, Korzeniowska-Kowal, Agnieszka, Lutyńska, Anna, Gouali, Malika, Grimont, Francine, Langendorf, Céline, Marejková, Monika, Peterson, Lorea A. M., Perez-Perez, Guillermo, Ngandjio, Antoinette, Podkolzin, Alexander, Souche, Erika, Makarova, Mariia, Shipulin, German A., Ye, Changyun, Žemličková, Helena, Herpay, Mária, Grimont, Patrick A. D., Parkhill, Julian, Sansonetti, Philippe, Holt, Kathryn E., Brisse, Sylvain, Thomson, Nicholas R. and Weill, François-Xavier (2016) Global phylogeography and evolutionary history of Shigella dysenteriae type 1. Nature Microbiology, 1 (4). ISSN 2058-5276

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Abstract

Together with plague, smallpox and typhus, epidemics of dysentery have been a major scourge of human populations for centuries1. A previous genomic study concluded that Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Sd1), the epidemic dysentery bacillus, emerged and spread worldwide after the First World War, with no clear pattern of transmission2. This is not consistent with the massive cyclic dysentery epidemics reported in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries1,3,4 and the first isolation of Sd1 in Japan in 18975. Here, we report a whole-genome analysis of 331 Sd1 isolates from around the world, collected between 1915 and 2011, providing us with unprecedented insight into the historical spread of this pathogen. We show here that Sd1 has existed since at least the eighteenth century and that it swept the globe at the end of the nineteenth century, diversifying into distinct lineages associated with the First World War, Second World War and various conflicts or natural disasters across Africa, Asia and Central America. We also provide a unique historical perspective on the evolution of antibiotic resistance over a 100-year period, beginning decades before the antibiotic era, and identify a prevalent multiple antibiotic-resistant lineage in South Asia that was transmitted in several waves to Africa, where it caused severe outbreaks of disease.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Metabolic Health
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	24 Apr 2019 12:30
Last Modified:	06 Jun 2024 15:06
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70673
DOI:	10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.27

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