Uchida-Fujii Eri, Niwa Hidekazu, Kinoshita Yuta, Katayama Yoshinari, Nukada Toshio
Microbiology Division, Equine Research Institute, Japan Racing Association, Tochigi 329-0412, Japan.
J Equine Sci. 2020 Oct;31(3):49-55. doi: 10.1294/jes.31.49. Epub 2020 Oct 5.
Enterobacter cloacae is an opportunistic pathogen of horses. Thirty isolates obtained from horses and their environments and identified as Enterobacter cloacae by biochemical methods were reidentified by taxonomic identification based on multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) and by a commercial identification system based on matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS). MLSA identified the 30 equine isolates as E. ludwigii (9/30), E. asburiae (1/30), or E. cloacae (1/30); 19 isolates were not identified. The MALDI-TOF MS system could not clearly distinguish isolates to the species level, and the limited numbers of reference spectra for Enterobacter species might have contributed to the poor identification.
阴沟肠杆菌是马的一种机会致病菌。从马及其生活环境中分离得到30株经生化方法鉴定为阴沟肠杆菌的菌株,通过基于多位点序列分析(MLSA)的分类鉴定和基于基质辅助激光解吸电离飞行时间质谱(MALDI-TOF MS)的商业鉴定系统进行重新鉴定。MLSA将30株马源菌株鉴定为路德维希肠杆菌(9/30)、阿氏肠杆菌(1/30)或阴沟肠杆菌(1/30);19株未被鉴定。MALDI-TOF MS系统无法在种水平上清晰区分分离株,肠杆菌属参考光谱数量有限可能导致鉴定效果不佳。