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The Population Genomics of Increased Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance in Human Commensal Escherichia coli over 30 Years in France

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Escherichia coli is a commensal species of the lower intestine but is also a major pathogen causing intestinal and extraintestinal infections that is increasingly prevalent and resistant to antibiotics. Most studies on genomic evolution of E. coli used isolates from infections. Here, instead, we whole-genome sequenced a collection of 403 commensal E. coli isolates from fecal samples of healthy adult volunteers in France (1980 to 2010). These isolates were distributed mainly in phylogroups A and B2 (30% each) and belonged to 152 sequence types (STs), the five most frequent being ST10 (phylogroup A; 16.3%), ST73 and ST95 (phylogroup B2; 6.3 and 5.0%, respectively), ST69 (phylogroup D; 4.2%), and ST59 (phylogroup F; 3.9%), and 224 O:H serotypes. ST and serotype diversity increased over time. The O1, O2, O6, and O25 groups used in bioconjugate O-antigen vaccine against extraintestinal infections were found in 23% of the strains of our collection. The increase in frequency of virulence-associated genes and antibiotic resistance was driven by two evolutionary mechanisms. Evolution of virulence gene frequency was driven by both clonal expansion of STs with more virulence genes (“ST-driven”) and increases in gene frequency within STs independent of changes in ST frequencies (“gene-driven”). In contrast, the evolution of resistance was dominated by increases in frequency within STs (“gene-driven”). This study provides a unique picture of the phylogenomic evolution of E. coli in its human commensal habitat over 30 years and will have implications for the development of preventive strategies.
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Julie Marin, Olivier Clermont, Guilhem Royer, Mélanie Mercier-Darty, Jean Winoc Decousser, et al.. The Population Genomics of Increased Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance in Human Commensal Escherichia coli over 30 Years in France. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2022, 88 (15), pp.00664-22. ⟨10.1128/aem.00664-22⟩. ⟨hal-03835685⟩

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