Dissertação de Mestrado
Genomic diversity of the brazilian strains of Streptococcus agalactiae isolated From outbreaks on fish farms
Fecha
2017-02-07Autor
Gustavo Morais Barony
Institución
Resumen
Nile tilapia is the most produced fish in Brazil and the evolution of its cultivation is affected by the pathogen Streptococcus agalactiae. The aims of this thesis were to review the literature about streptococcosis by S. agalactiae and its epidemiology and to analyze genetic structure of the Brazilian isolates, to establish a method to track outbreaks of streptococcosis and to distinguish closely related strains. A total of 39 strains were obtained from outbreaks and their whole genomes were sequenced and annotated for comparative analysis of multilocus sequence typing (MLST), genomic similarity, whole genome MLST (wgMLST) and a Bayesian evolutionary analysis of the species. The Brazilian strains of S. agalactiae presented two STs, among which a new one just described, and also a non-typeable lineage. The wgMLST could differentiate each strain in a single clone and establish temporal and geographical correlations among strains, wherein STs 260 and 927 predominated in Northeast, and non-typeable strains, on Central-South region. The Bayesian evolutionary analysis revealed that the Brazilian population of S. agalactiae has a remarkably recent emergence, about 585 years ago. Brazilian strains of S. agalactiae showed to be heterogeneous in its genome sequence, distributed in different regions of the country according to the genotype, and wgMLST analysis could track each outbreak event individually.