Phylogeographical analysis of the dominant multidrug-resistant H58 clade of Salmonella Typhi identifies inter-and intracontinental transmission events

• Main Authors: Vanessa K. Wong, Stephen Baker, Derek J. Pickard, Julian Parkhill, Andrew J. Page, Nicholas A. Feasey, Robert A. Kingsley, Nicholas R. Thomson, Jacqueline A. Keane, François Xavier Weill, David J. Edwards, Jane Hawkey, Simon R. Harris, Alison E. Mather, Amy K. Cain, James Hadfield, Peter J. Hart, Nga Tran Vu Thieu, Elizabeth J. Klemm, Dafni A. Glinos, Robert F. Breiman, Conall H. Watson, Samuel Kariuki, Melita A. Gordon, Robert S. Heyderman, Chinyere Okoro, Jan Jacobs, Octavie Lunguya, W. John Edmunds, Chisomo Msefula, Jose A. Chabalgoity, Mike Kama, Kylie Jenkins, Shanta Dutta, Florian Marks, Josefina Campos, Corinne Thompson, Stephen Obaro, Calman A. Maclennan, Christiane Dolecek, Karen H. Keddy, Anthony M. Smith, Christopher M. Parry, Abhilasha Karkey, E. Kim Mulholland, James I. Campbell, Sabina Dongol, Buddha Basnyat, Muriel Dufour, Don Bandaranayake, Take Toleafoa Naseri, Shalini Pravin Singh, Mochammad Hatta, Paul Newton, Robert S. Onsare, Lupeoletalalei Isaia, David Dance, Viengmon Davong, Guy Thwaites, Lalith Wijedoru, John A. Crump, Elizabeth De Pinna, Satheesh Nair, Eric J. Nilles, Duy Pham Thanh, Paul Turner, Sona Soeng, Mary Valcanis, Joan Powling, Karolina Dimovski, Geoff Hogg, Jeremy Farrar, Kathryn E. Holt
• Other Authors: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/35455
• Institution: Mahidol University

© 2015 Nature America, Inc. All rights reserved. The emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) typhoid is a major global health threat affecting many countries where the disease is endemic. Here whole-genome sequence analysis of 1,832 Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi) identifies a single dominant MDR lineage, H58, that has emerged and spread throughout Asia and Africa over the last 30 years. Our analysis identifies numerous transmissions of H58, including multiple transfers from Asia to Africa and an ongoing, unrecognized MDR epidemic within Africa itself. Notably, our analysis indicates that H58 lineages are displacing antibiotic-sensitive isolates, transforming the global population structure of this pathogen. H58 isolates can harbor a complex MDR element residing either on transmissible IncHI1 plasmids or within multiple chromosomal integration sites. We also identify new mutations that define the H58 lineage. This phylogeographical analysis provides a framework to facilitate global management of MDR typhoid and is applicable to similar MDR lineages emerging in other bacterial species.