Within-host microevolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae is rapid and adaptive during natural colonisation
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Authors
Senghore, Madikay
Bojang, Ebrima
Gladstone, Rebecca A.
Lo, Stephanie W.
Bancroft, Rowan E.
Worwui, Archibald
Foster-Nyarko, Ebenezer
Ceesay, Fatima
Okoi, Catherine
McGee, Lesley
Klugman, Keith P.
Breiman, Robert F.
Barer, Michael R.
Adegbola, Richard A.
Antonio, Martin
Publication Date
2020-07-10Journal Title
Nature Communications
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Volume
11
Issue
1
Language
en
Type
Article
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Chaguza, C., Senghore, M., Bojang, E., Gladstone, R. A., Lo, S. W., Tientcheu, P., Bancroft, R. E., et al. (2020). Within-host microevolution of Streptococcus pneumoniae is rapid and adaptive during natural colonisation. Nature Communications, 11 (1)https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17327-w
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Funder: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Abstract
Abstract: Genomic evolution, transmission and pathogenesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae, an opportunistic human-adapted pathogen, is driven principally by nasopharyngeal carriage. However, little is known about genomic changes during natural colonisation. Here, we use whole-genome sequencing to investigate within-host microevolution of naturally carried pneumococci in ninety-eight infants intensively sampled sequentially from birth until twelve months in a high-carriage African setting. We show that neutral evolution and nucleotide substitution rates up to forty-fold faster than observed over longer timescales in S. pneumoniae and other bacteria drives high within-host pneumococcal genetic diversity. Highly divergent co-existing strain variants emerge during colonisation episodes through real-time intra-host homologous recombination while the rest are co-transmitted or acquired independently during multiple colonisation episodes. Genic and intergenic parallel evolution occur particularly in antibiotic resistance, immune evasion and epithelial adhesion genes. Our findings suggest that within-host microevolution is rapid and adaptive during natural colonisation.
Keywords
Article, /631/208/212/2304, /631/208/325/2482, /631/326/107, /692/308/3187, /45, /45/23, /13, /129, /141, /119, article
Sponsorship
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) (OPP1034556, OPP1034556, OPP1034556)
Identifiers
s41467-020-17327-w, 17327
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17327-w
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/307844
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