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Ha HTA, Nguyen PTL, Hung TTM, Tuan LA, Thuy BT, Lien THM, Thai PD, Thanh NH, Bich VTN, Anh TH, Hanh NTH, Minh NT, Thanh DP, Mai SNT, The HC, Trung NV, Thu NH, Duong TN, Anh DD, Ngoc PT, Bañuls AL, Choisy M, van Doorn HR, Suzuki M, Hoang TH. Prevalence and Associated Factors of optrA-Positive- Enterococcus faecalis in Different Reservoirs around Farms in Vietnam. Antibiotics (Basel) 2023; 12:954. [PMID: 37370273 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics12060954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2023] [Revised: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 05/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
Abstract
Linezolid is an antibiotic of last resort for the treatment of infections caused by Gram-positive bacteria, including vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Enterococcus faecalis, a member of enterococci, is a significant pathogen in nosocomial infections. E. faecalis resistance to linezolid is frequently related to the presence of optrA, which is often co-carried with fex, phenicol exporter genes, and erm genes encoding macrolide resistance. Therefore, the common use of antibiotics in veterinary might promote the occurrence of optrA in livestock settings. This is a cross-sectional study aiming to investigate the prevalence of optrA positive E. faecalis (OPEfs) in 6 reservoirs in farms in Ha Nam province, Vietnam, and its associated factors and to explore genetic relationships of OPEfs isolates. Among 639 collected samples, the prevalence of OPEfs was highest in flies, 46.8% (51/109), followed by chickens 37.3% (72/193), dogs 33.3% (17/51), humans 18.7% (26/139), wastewater 16.4% (11/67) and pigs 11.3%, (14/80). The total feeding area and total livestock unit of the farm were associated with the presence of OPEfs in chickens, flies, and wastewater. Among 186 OPEfs strains, 86% were resistant to linezolid. The presence of optrA was also related to the resistant phenotype against linezolid and levofloxacin of E. faecalis isolates. Close genotypic relationships identified by Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis between OPEfs isolates recovered from flies and other reservoirs including chickens, pigs, dogs, and wastewater suggested the role of flies in the transmission of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. These results provided warnings of linezolid resistance although it is not used in livestock.
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- Hoang Thi An Ha
- Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
- Department of Microbiology, Vinh Medical University, Vinh 431000, Vietnam
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam
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- Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- National Institute of Veterinary Research, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- MIVEGEC (IRD-CNRS-Université de Montpellier), LMI DRISA, Centre IRD, 34394 Montpellier, France
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam
- Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4BH, UK
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
- Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4BH, UK
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- National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-0052, Japan
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- Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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Thanh ND, Hai DS, Huyen LT, Hanh NT, Anh HH, Bich VTN, Hien PTT, Toan VN, Van HTK, Giang NTK. 1H-1,2,3-Triazole-4H-chromene-D-glucose hybrid compounds: Synthesis and inhibitory activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein tyrosine phosphatase B. Arch Pharm (Weinheim) 2023; 356:e2200459. [PMID: 36417559 DOI: 10.1002/ardp.202200459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Revised: 10/30/2022] [Accepted: 10/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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A series of 1H-1,2,3-triazole-4H-chromene-D-glucose hybrid compounds 7a-w were synthesized using click chemistry of 2-amino-7-propargyloxy-4H-chromene-3-carbonitriles 5a-w. CuNPs@montmorillonite was used as a catalyst in the presence of DIPEA as an additive for this chemistry. All synthesized 1H-1,2,3-triazoles were examined for in vitro inhibition against Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein tyrosine phosphatase B (MtbPtpB). Nine 1H-1,2,3-triazoles, including 7c-e, 7h, 7i, and 7r-t, displayed remarkable inhibitory activity against MtbPtpB with IC50 < 10 μM; compound 7t exhibited the most potent inhibition in vitro with an IC50 value of 0.61 μM. Kinetic studies of the three most active compounds, 7c,h,t, showed their competitive inhibition toward the MtbPtpB enzyme. Induced-fit docking and MM-GBSA studies on the enzyme (PDB: 2OZ5) revealed that the most active compound 7t was more effective against MtbPtpB. Residues Arg64, Arg136, Ash165, Arg166, and Arg63 in the binding pocket were identified as potential ligand-binding hot-spot residues for ligand 7t. The binding free energy calculation by the MM-GBSA approach for ligand 7t indicated that Coulomb, lipophilic, and van der Waals energy terms are major contributors to the inhibitor binding. Furthermore, the stability of the ligand-protein complex and the structural insights into the mode of binding were confirmed by 300-ns molecular dynamics simulation of 7t/2OZ5.
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- Nguyen Dinh Thanh
- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi), Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi), Ha Noi, Vietnam.,Institute of Science and Technology, Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi), Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi), Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi), Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi), Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi), Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi), Ha Noi, Vietnam.,Institute of New Technology, Military Institute of Science and Technology, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi), Ha Noi, Vietnam.,Faculty of Chemical Technology, Viet Tri University of Industry, Phu Tho, Vietnam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi), Ha Noi, Vietnam.,Institute of Science and Technology, Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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Auladell M, Phuong HVM, Mai LTQ, Tseng YY, Carolan L, Wilks S, Thai PQ, Price D, Duong NT, Hang NLK, Thanh LT, Thuong NTH, Huong TTK, Diep NTN, Bich VTN, Khvorov A, Hensen L, Duong TN, Kedzierska K, Anh DD, Wertheim H, Boyd SD, Good-Jacobson KL, Smith D, Barr I, Sullivan S, van Doorn HR, Fox A. Influenza virus infection history shapes antibody responses to influenza vaccination. Nat Med 2022; 28:363-372. [PMID: 35177857 DOI: 10.1038/s41591-022-01690-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Studies of successive vaccination suggest that immunological memory against past influenza viruses may limit responses to vaccines containing current strains. The impact of memory induced by prior infection is rarely considered and is difficult to ascertain, because infections are often subclinical. This study investigated influenza vaccination among adults from the Ha Nam cohort (Vietnam), who were purposefully selected to include 72 with and 28 without documented influenza A(H3N2) infection during the preceding 9 years (Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry 12621000110886). The primary outcome was the effect of prior influenza A(H3N2) infection on hemagglutinin-inhibiting antibody responses induced by a locally available influenza vaccine administered in November 2016. Baseline and postvaccination sera were titrated against 40 influenza A(H3N2) strains spanning 1968-2018. At each time point (baseline, day 14 and day 280), geometric mean antibody titers against 2008-2018 strains were higher among participants with recent infection (34 (29-40), 187 (154-227) and 86 (72-103)) than among participants without recent infection (19 (17-22), 91 (64-130) and 38 (30-49)). On days 14 and 280, mean titer rises against 2014-2018 strains were 6.1-fold (5.0- to 7.4-fold) and 2.6-fold (2.2- to 3.1-fold) for participants with recent infection versus 4.8-fold (3.5- to 6.7-fold) and 1.9-fold (1.5- to 2.3-fold) for those without. One of 72 vaccinees with recent infection versus 4 of 28 without developed symptomatic A(H3N2) infection in the season after vaccination (P = 0.021). The range of A(H3N2) viruses recognized by vaccine-induced antibodies was associated with the prior infection strain. These results suggest that recall of immunological memory induced by prior infection enhances antibody responses to inactivated influenza vaccine and is important to attain protective antibody titers.
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- Maria Auladell
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Royal Melbourne Hospital, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Royal Melbourne Hospital, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Pathogen Evolution, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory Epidemiology Unit and The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Africa Asia Programme, National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Africa Asia Programme, National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Africa Asia Programme, National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Africa Asia Programme, National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Royal Melbourne Hospital, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Africa Asia Programme, National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, Ha Noi, Vietnam.,Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Stanford University Medical Centre, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.,Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Pathogen Evolution, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Royal Melbourne Hospital, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Royal Melbourne Hospital, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Africa Asia Programme, National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, Ha Noi, Vietnam.,Centre of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. .,WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Royal Melbourne Hospital, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. .,Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne, at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Dinh Thanh N, Do SH, Le TH, Thi Hanh N, Minh Huyen N, Thi Ngoc Bich V, Thi Thu Hien P, Ngoc Toan V, Hoang TKV, Thi Kim Giang N. Synthesis and antiproliferative activity of 1H-1,2,3-triazole−4H-chromene−D-glucose hybrid compounds with dual inhibitory activity against EGFR/VEGFR-2 and molecular docking study. NEW J CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1039/d2nj04373d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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A series of 1H-1,2,3-triazole−4H-chromene−D-glucose hybrid compound 7a-o were synthesized by using click chemistry of 2-amino-7-propargyloxy-4H-chromene-3-carbonitriles 5a-o and peracetylated D-glucopyaranosyl azide. CuNPs@Montmorillonite K10 was used as catalyst in the presence of...
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Bich VTN, Thanh LV, Thai PD, Van Phuong TT, Oomen M, Driessen C, Beuken E, Hoang TH, van Doorn HR, Penders J, Wertheim HFL. An exploration of the gut and environmental resistome in a community in northern Vietnam in relation to antibiotic use. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 2019; 8:194. [PMID: 31798840 PMCID: PMC6883630 DOI: 10.1186/s13756-019-0645-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2019] [Accepted: 11/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Antibiotic resistance is a major global public health threat. Antibiotic use can directly impact the antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) profile of the human intestinal microbiome and consequently the environment through shedding. Methods We determined the resistome of human feces, animal stools, human food and environmental (rain, well, and irrigative water) samples (n = 304) in 40 households within a community cohort and related the data to antibiotic consumption. Metagenomic DNA was isolated and qPCR was used to determine presence of mobile colistin resistance (mcr) genes, genes encoding extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBL), carbapenemases and quinolone resistance genes. Results Nearly 40 % (39.5%, 120/304) of samples contained ESBL genes (most frequent were CTX-M-9 (23.7% [72/304]), CTX-M-1 (18.8% [57/304]). Quinolone resistance genes (qnrS) were detected in all human and 91% (41/45) of animal stool samples. Mcr-1 and mcr-3 were predominantly detected in human feces at 88% (82/93) and 55% (51/93) and animal feces at 93% (42/45) and 51% (23/45), respectively. Mcr-2, mrc-4 and mcr-5 were not detected in human feces, and only sporadically (< 6%) in other samples. Carbapenemase-encoding genes were most common in water (15% [14/91]) and cooked food (13% [10/75]) samples, while their prevalence in human and animal stools was lower at 4% in both human (4/93) and animal (2/45) samples. We did not find an association between recent antibiotic consumption and ARGs in human stools. Principal component analysis showed that the resistome differs between ecosystems with a strong separation of ARGs profiles of human and animal stools on the one hand versus cooked food and water samples on the other. Conclusions Our study indicated that ARGs were abundant in human and animal stools in a rural Vietnamese community, including ARGs targeting last resort antibiotics. The resistomes of animal and human stools were similar as opposed to the resistomes from water and food sources. No association between antibiotic use and ARG profiles was found in a setting of high background rates of AMR.
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- Vu Thi Ngoc Bich
- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Welcome Trust Major Asia Programme, Oxford, Vietnam
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Welcome Trust Major Asia Programme, Oxford, Vietnam
- Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM) and Care and Public Health Research Institute (Caphri), Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM) and Care and Public Health Research Institute (Caphri), Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM) and Care and Public Health Research Institute (Caphri), Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Ha Noi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Welcome Trust Major Asia Programme, Oxford, Vietnam
- Center for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM) and Care and Public Health Research Institute (Caphri), Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Radboudumc Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Center for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Trung NV, Hoi LT, Cuong DD, Ha DT, Hoa TM, Lien VN, Hoa NT, Hoa LNM, Huong DT, Bich VTN, van Doorn HR, Nadjm B, Richards AL. Analysis of the 56-kDa type specific antigen gene of Orientia tsutsugamushi from northern Vietnam. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0221588. [PMID: 31469878 PMCID: PMC6716651 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2019] [Accepted: 08/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Scrub typhus has been documented since 1932 in Vietnam, however, the disease burden of scrub typhus remains poorly understood in the country. We conducted this study to describe the phylogenetic analysis of the 56-kDa type-specific antigen (TSA) gene of Orientia tsutsugamushi associated with PCR positive cases of scrub typhus. Of 116 positive samples, 65 type-specific antigen gene sequences were obtained and classified into 3 genogroups: Karp, Kato and Gilliam. The Karp genogroup was the most frequently detected phylogenetic cluster in the study with 30 samples (46%), followed by Kato and Gilliam with 20 (31%) and 15 (23%), respectively. All sequences showed 94–100% nucleotide similarity to reference sequences collected in the central part of Vietnam in 2017. Patients infected with Karp genogroup were more likely to have significant thrombocytopenia than the other genogroups. These results suggest that any scrub typhus vaccine considered for use in Vietnam should provide protection against each of these 3 genogroups.
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- Nguyen Vu Trung
- National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust Asia Program, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust Asia Program, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust Asia Program, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Barkham T, Zadoks RN, Azmai MNA, Baker S, Bich VTN, Chalker V, Chau ML, Dance D, Deepak RN, van Doorn HR, Gutierrez RA, Holmes MA, Huong LNP, Koh TH, Martins E, Mehershahi K, Newton P, Ng LC, Phuoc NN, Sangwichian O, Sawatwong P, Surin U, Tan TY, Tang WY, Thuy NV, Turner P, Vongsouvath M, Zhang D, Whistler T, Chen SL. One hypervirulent clone, sequence type 283, accounts for a large proportion of invasive Streptococcus agalactiae isolated from humans and diseased tilapia in Southeast Asia. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2019; 13:e0007421. [PMID: 31246981 PMCID: PMC6597049 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2019] [Accepted: 04/29/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Background In 2015, Singapore had the first and only reported foodborne outbreak of invasive disease caused by the group B Streptococcus (GBS; Streptococcus agalactiae). Disease, predominantly septic arthritis and meningitis, was associated with sequence type (ST)283, acquired from eating raw farmed freshwater fish. Although GBS sepsis is well-described in neonates and older adults with co-morbidities, this outbreak affected non-pregnant and younger adults with fewer co-morbidities, suggesting greater virulence. Before 2015 ST283 had only been reported from twenty humans in Hong Kong and two in France, and from one fish in Thailand. We hypothesised that ST283 was causing region-wide infection in Southeast Asia. Methodology/Principal findings We performed a literature review, whole genome sequencing on 145 GBS isolates collected from six Southeast Asian countries, and phylogenetic analysis on 7,468 GBS sequences including 227 variants of ST283 from humans and animals. Although almost absent outside Asia, ST283 was found in all invasive Asian collections analysed, from 1995 to 2017. It accounted for 29/38 (76%) human isolates in Lao PDR, 102/139 (73%) in Thailand, 4/13 (31%) in Vietnam, and 167/739 (23%) in Singapore. ST283 and its variants were found in 62/62 (100%) tilapia from 14 outbreak sites in Malaysia and Vietnam, in seven fish species in Singapore markets, and a diseased frog in China. Conclusions GBS ST283 is widespread in Southeast Asia, where it accounts for a large proportion of bacteraemic GBS, and causes disease and economic loss in aquaculture. If human ST283 is fishborne, as in the Singapore outbreak, then GBS sepsis in Thailand and Lao PDR is predominantly a foodborne disease. However, whether transmission is from aquaculture to humans, or vice versa, or involves an unidentified reservoir remains unknown. Creation of cross-border collaborations in human and animal health are needed to complete the epidemiological picture. An outbreak due to a bacterium called Streptococccus agalactiae in Singapore in 2015 was caused by a clone called ST283, and was associated with consumption of raw freshwater-fish. It was considered unique as it was the only reported foodborne outbreak of this bacterium. Our new data show that invasive ST283 disease is far from unique. ST283 has been causing disease in humans and farmed fish in SE Asian countries for decades. Reports of ST283 are almost absent outside Asia. We suspect that human ST283 is fishborne in other Asian countries, as it was in Singapore, but we haven’t looked at this yet. We don’t know where ST283 originally came from; it may have been transmitted from humans to fish, or come from another animal. More studies are needed to determine ST283’s geographical extent and burden of disease, as well as its origin, how it is transmitted, and what enables it to be so aggressive. We may then be able to interrupt transmission, to the benefit of fish, farmers, and the general public.
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- Timothy Barkham
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
- * E-mail: (TB); (SLC)
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- Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, and Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Centre for Tropical Medicine, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore
- National Centre for Food Science, Singapore Food Agency, Singapore
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- Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore
- National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Department of Microbiology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
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- Instituto de Microbiologia, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
- Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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- Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore
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- Faculty of Fisheries, University of Agriculture and Forestry, Hue University, Hue City, Vietnam
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- Thailand Ministry of Public Health (MOPH)-US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration (TUC), Nonthaburi, Thailand
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- Thailand Ministry of Public Health (MOPH)-US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration (TUC), Nonthaburi, Thailand
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- Nakhon Phanom General Hospital, Nakhon Phanom Provincial Health Office, Nakhon Phanom, Thailand
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Changi General Hospital, Singapore
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- Molecular Biology Laboratory, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
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- National Hospital for Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Cambodia-Oxford Medical Research Unit, Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia
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- Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical & Subtropical Fishery Resource Application & Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
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- Thailand Ministry of Public Health (MOPH)-US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Collaboration (TUC), Nonthaburi, Thailand
- Division of Global Health Protection, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Infectious Diseases Group, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
- * E-mail: (TB); (SLC)
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Thanh ND, Hai DS, Ngoc Bich VT, Thu Hien PT, Ky Duyen NT, Mai NT, Dung TT, Toan VN, Kim Van HT, Dang LH, Toan DN, Thanh Van TT. Efficient click chemistry towards novel 1H-1,2,3-triazole-tethered 4H-chromene−d-glucose conjugates: Design, synthesis and evaluation of in vitro antibacterial, MRSA and antifungal activities. Eur J Med Chem 2019; 167:454-471. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2019.01.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2018] [Revised: 12/19/2018] [Accepted: 01/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Dinh Thanh N, Son Hai D, Thi Ngoc Bich V, Thi Thu Hien P, Thi Ky Duyen N, Thi Mai N, Thi Dung T, Thi Kim Van H, Ngoc Toan V, Huy NH, Thi Thanh Van T, Ngoc Toan D, Hai Dang L. Synthesis and structure of some substituted 2-amino-4-aryl-7-propargyloxy-4H-chromene-3-carbonitriles. SYNTHETIC COMMUN 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/00397911.2018.1543779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Nguyen Dinh Thanh
- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi) , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi) , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
- General Department 4 (Ministry of Public Security), Lab of Profession Chemistry Institute of Biochemical Technology and Profession Documents , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi) , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi) , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi) , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi) , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi) , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi) , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
- Viet Tri University of Industry , Phu Tho , Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi) , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
- Institute for Chemistry and Materials, Military Institute of Science and Technology , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi) , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi) , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi) , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
- Faculty of Chemistry, Thai Nguyen University of Education , Thai Nguyen , Viet Nam
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- Faculty of Chemistry, VNU University of Science (Vietnam National University, Ha Noi) , Ha Noi , Viet Nam
- Thai Nguyen College of Education, Thai Nguyen University of Education , Thai Nguyen , Viet Nam
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Thuy DM, Peacock TP, Bich VTN, Fabrizio T, Hoang DN, Tho ND, Diep NT, Nguyen M, Hoa LNM, Trang HTT, Choisy M, Inui K, Newman S, Trung NV, van Doorn R, To TL, Iqbal M, Bryant JE. Prevalence and diversity of H9N2 avian influenza in chickens of Northern Vietnam, 2014. Infect Genet Evol 2016; 44:530-540. [PMID: 27340015 PMCID: PMC5036934 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2016.06.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2016] [Revised: 06/17/2016] [Accepted: 06/19/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
Despite their classification as low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses (LPAIV), A/H9N2 viruses cause significant losses in poultry in many countries throughout Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. To date, poultry surveillance in Vietnam has focused on detection of influenza H5 viruses, and there is limited understanding of influenza H9 epidemiology and transmission dynamics. We determined prevalence and diversity of influenza A viruses in chickens from live bird markets (LBM) of 7 northern Vietnamese provinces, using pooled oropharyngeal swabs collected from October to December 2014. Screening by real time RT-PCR revealed 1207/4900 (24.6%) of pooled swabs to be influenza A virus positive; overall prevalence estimates after accounting for pooling (5 swabs/pools) were 5.8% (CI 5.4–6.0). Subtyping was performed on 468 pooled swabs with M gene Ct < 26. No influenza H7 was detected; 422 (90.1%) were H9 positive; and 22 (4.7%) were H5 positive. There was no evidence was of interaction between H9 and H5 virus detection rates. We sequenced 17 whole genomes of A/H9N2, 2 of A/H5N6, and 11 partial genomes. All H9N2 viruses had internal genes that clustered with genotype 57 and were closely related to Chinese human isolates of A/H7N9 and A/H10N8. Using a nucleotide divergence cutoff of 98%, we identified 9 distinct H9 genotypes. Phylogenetic analysis suggested multiple introductions of H9 viruses to northern Vietnam rather than in-situ transmission. Further investigations of H9 prevalence and diversity in other regions of Vietnam are warranted to assess H9 endemicity elsewhere in the country. We report detection of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) from healthy chickens in Live Bird Markets of Vietnam. Because all breeds of domestic chickens are extremely susceptible to HPAI, we speculate that HPAI detections from market chickens may reflect infections that occur after arrival in the market. Alternatively, shedding of HPAI from healthy birds may reflect vaccine-induced protective immunity that mitigates disease but does not block viral infection. As many as 49% of all pooled surveillance swabs were positive for influenza A virus, corresponding to an overall Influenza A prevalence of 5.45% (95% Confidence Interval 5.4-6.0%). Low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) H9N2 accounted for the vast majority of all influenza A detections in market chickens sampled from 9 northern provinces. To date there is no evidence to suggest an interaction effect between circulation of H5 and H9 viruses; however sampling strategies that involve pooling of surveillance swabs from multiple birds greatly complicates the assessment of co-infection rates or evaluation of epidemiological associations.
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- Duong Mai Thuy
- National Center for Veterinary Diagnostics, Department of Animal Health, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Avian Viral Diseases programme, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, UK; St Mary's Campus, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- St Jude's Center for Excellence in Influenza Research and Surveillance, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Animal Health, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- MIVEGEC (UM1-UM2-CNRS 5290-IRD 224), Centre de Recherche IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Division of Epidemiology, Department of Animal Health, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam; MIVEGEC (UM1-UM2-CNRS 5290-IRD 224), Centre de Recherche IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam; Center for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- National Center for Veterinary Diagnostics, Department of Animal Health, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Avian Viral Diseases programme, The Pirbright Institute, Woking, UK
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- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit and Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam; Center for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Hai LT, Bich VTN, Ngai LK, Diep NTN, Phuc PH, Hung VP, Taylor WR, Horby P, Liem NT, Wertheim HFL. Fatal respiratory infections associated with rhinovirus outbreak, Vietnam. Emerg Infect Dis 2013; 18:1886-8. [PMID: 23092635 PMCID: PMC3559162 DOI: 10.3201/eid1811.120607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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During an outbreak of severe acute respiratory infections in 2 orphanages, Vietnam, 7/12 hospitalized children died. All hospitalized children and 26/43 children from outbreak orphanages tested positive for rhinovirus versus 9/40 control children (p = 0.0005). Outbreak rhinoviruses formed a distinct genetic cluster. Human rhinovirus is an underappreciated cause of severe pneumonia in vulnerable groups.
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Fox A, Le NMH, Horby P, van Doorn HR, Nguyen VT, Nguyen HH, Nguyen TC, Vu DP, Nguyen MH, Diep NTN, Bich VTN, Huong HTTK, Taylor WR, Farrar J, Wertheim H, Nguyen VK. Severe pandemic H1N1 2009 infection is associated with transient NK and T deficiency and aberrant CD8 responses. PLoS One 2012; 7:e31535. [PMID: 22363665 PMCID: PMC3282732 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2011] [Accepted: 01/09/2012] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Background It is unclear why the severity of influenza varies in healthy adults or why the burden of severe influenza shifts to young adults when pandemic strains emerge. One possibility is that cross-protective T cell responses wane in this age group in the absence of recent infection. We therefore compared the acute cellular immune response in previously healthy adults with severe versus mild pandemic H1N1 infection. Methods and Principal Findings 49 previously healthy adults admitted to the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, Viet Nam with RT-PCR-confirmed 2009 H1N1 infection were prospectively enrolled. 39 recovered quickly whereas 10 developed severe symptoms requiring supplemental oxygen and prolonged hospitalization. Peripheral blood lymphocyte subset counts and activation (HLADR, CD38) and differentiation (CD27, CD28) marker expression were determined on days 0, 2, 5, 10, 14 and 28 by flow cytometry. NK, CD4 and CD8 lymphopenia developed in 100%, 90% and 60% of severe cases versus 13% (p<0.001), 28%, (p = 0.001) and 18% (p = 0.014) of mild cases. CD4 and NK counts normalized following recovery. B cell counts were not significantly associated with severity. CD8 activation peaked 6–8 days after mild influenza onset, when 13% (6–22%) were HLADR+CD38+, and was accompanied by a significant loss of resting/CD27+CD28+ cells without accumulation of CD27+CD28− or CD27−CD28− cells. In severe influenza CD8 activation peaked more than 9 days post-onset, and/or was excessive (30–90% HLADR+CD38+) in association with accumulation of CD27+CD28− cells and maintenance of CD8 counts. Conclusion Severe influenza is associated with transient T and NK cell deficiency. CD8 phenotype changes during mild influenza are consistent with a rapidly resolving memory response whereas in severe influenza activation is either delayed or excessive, and partially differentiated cells accumulate within blood indicating that recruitment of effector cells to the lung could be impaired.
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- Annette Fox
- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Dong Da, Ha Noi, Viet Nam.
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