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Molecular evolutionary genetics of the cattle-adapted serovar Salmonella dublin.

Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park 16802.

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An electrophoretic analysis of allelic variation at 24 enzyme loci among 170 isolates of the serovar Salmonella dublin (serotype 1,9,12[Vi]:g,p:-) identified three electrophoretic types (Du 1, Du 3, and Du 4), marking three closely related clones, one of which (Du 1) is globally distributed and was represented by 95% of the randomly selected isolates. All but 1 of 114 nonmotile isolates of serotype 1,9,12:-:- recovered from cattle and swine in the United States were genotypically Du 1. The virulence capsular polysaccharide (Vi antigen) is confined to clone Du 3, which apparently is limited in distribution to France and Great Britain. For all 29 isolates of Du 3, positive signals were detected when genomic DNA was hybridized with a probe specific for the ViaB region, which contains the structurally determinant genes for the Vi antigen; and 23 of these isolates had been serologically typed as Vi positive. In contrast, all 30 isolates of Du 1 tested with the ViaB probe were negative. These findings strongly suggest that the ViaB genes were recently acquired by S. dublin via horizontal transfer and additive recombination. The clones of S. dublin are closely similar to the globally predominant clone (En 1) of Salmonella enteritidis (serotype 1,9,12:g,m:-) in both multilocus enzyme genotype and nucleotide sequence of the fliC gene encoding phase 1 flagellin. Comparative sequencing of fliC has revealed the molecular genetic basis for expression of the p and m flagellar epitopes by which these serovars are distinguished in the Kauffmann-White serological scheme of classification.

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