Molecular Diversity of Strains Isolated from

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Journal Front Vet Sci

Specialty Veterinary Medicine

Date 2022 Sep 8

PMID 36072387

Authors

Paulina Amsiejute

Vaclovas Jurgelevicius

Petras Maciulskis

ceslova Butrimaite-Ambrozeviciene

Simona Pileviciene

Zygimantas Janeliunas

Tatjana Kutyriova

Ingrida Jaceviciene

Algimantas Paulauskas

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Abstract

bacterium is known to be the causative agent of American foulbrood (AFB), a widespread, highly contagious and fatal disease in honey bees (). There are four genotypes of that are named after their enterobacterial repetitive consensus (ERIC), and a fifth ERIC genotype has recently been found. In this study, a total of 108 independent isolates from different geographical regions in Lithuania collected between 2011 and 2021 were investigated by molecular methods. The aims of this study were to detect which enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) genotype is the most common in Lithuania apiaries, identify and differentiate subtypes of the defined genotype by using multiple-locus variable number of tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA), and review how bacterial molecular diversity has changed over time in different parts of Lithuania. The obtained molecular analysis results showed that 100% of bacterial isolates from Lithuania belong to the ERIC I genotype and can be differentiated to nine different subtypes by using the MLVA and capillary electrophoresis methods.

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