CORRECTION article

Front. Microbiol., 09 January 2018

Sec. Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology

Volume 8 - 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02598

Corrigendum: Phylogenetic Analyses of Shigella and Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli for the Identification of Molecular Epidemiological Markers: Whole-Genome Comparative Analysis Does Not Support Distinct Genera Designation

  • 1. Division of Microbiology, Office of Regulatory Science, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, College Park, MD, United States

  • 2. Division of Public Health Informatics and Analytics, Office of Analytics and Outreach, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, College Park, MD, United States

In the original article, there was a mistake in Table 1 as published. Our collection stock of EIEC-O152 (1) contained low level of ExPEC-O25:H16 which was sequenced in the study instead of EIEC. The corrected Table 1 appears below.

Table 1

Tree labelDescriptionIsolatesSerotypes
EIECEnteroinvasive E. coli3215
EAECEnteroaggregative E. coli33
STECShiga-toxin producing E. coli11
ExPECExtraintestinal E. coli63
EPECEnteropathogenic E. coli32
EHECEnterohemorrhagic E. coli55
E. fergusoniiE. fergusonii21
SDShigella dysenteriae2314
SFShigella flexneri366
SBShigella boydii3220
SSShigella sonnei261
S. entericaSalmonella enterica21
Total17172

Number of bacterial isolates and serotypes.

The ExPEC cluster contains the ExPEC-O25:H16 instead of the one EIEC isolate but this cluster was not discussed in the original manuscript. The NCBI accession has been updated as well.

Labels for EIEC-O152 (1) were modified to ExPEC-O25:H16 on the phylogenetic trees displayed in Figures 1, 3, and in Supplementary Figures 1, 46, and in Supplementary Tables 1, 3.

Figure 1

Figure 3

Additionally, the text in the Phylogeny subsection in Results, first paragraph, should be written as:

One hundred and seventy-one genomes were selected to encompass a large selection of EIEC strains and represent the diversity of the Shigella genus. Genomes from 35 isolates were in-house sequenced draft genomes while 136 were available in public databases (Supplementary Table 1). We used 23 isolates of SD, including a minimum of 14 serotypes, 36 SF isolates, including at least six serotypes, 32 SB isolates, covering all 20 serotypes, 26 SS isolates, 32 EIEC isolates with 15 different serotypes, 18 isolates of non-invasive E. coli composed of 14 different serotypes, two isolates of E. fergusonii. The genomes of two Salmonella isolates were used for an outgroup (Table 1).

In the original article, there was a mistake in Table 2 as published. A coding mistake led to incorrect identification of lineage-specific SNPs. We reported 404 diagnostic SNPs, but the correct count is 254. The corrected Table 2 appears below and Supplementary Table 2 with the sequences of the regions containing the diagnostic SNPs has been modified.

Table 2

GroupNDsnps
EIEC/EHEC/EAEC126
EIEC large160
EIEC small331
ExPEC671
SB/SD large387
SB/SD small1521
SD serotype 131
SD serotype 10337
SD serotype 8/EHEC/EPEC101
SF3334
SS2645
Total165254

Phylogenetic group name (from Figure 1), number of individuals within each group (N) and the number of diagnostic SNPs (Dsnps).

The abstract should read “Lastly, we identified a panel of 254 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers specific to each phylogenetic cluster for more accurate identification of Shigella and EIEC.” Similarly, the second line in the Lineage-Specific SNP Identification and Evaluation of Previously Described Molecular Assays for the Differentiation of Shigella and EIEC subsection in Results should read: “From 7,062 core SNPs, we found 254 SNP positions that were diagnostic for each of the clusters (Supplementary Table S2).”

The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.

The original article has been updated.

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Conflict of interest

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Supplementary material

The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02598/full#supplementary-material

Supplementary Figure 1

A maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogeny of Shigella, enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC), non-invasive E. coli strains and Salmonella outgroup based on 2,348 SNPs present in all genomes using the kSNP program (Gardner and Hall, 2013). The ML tree was generated using GARLI v. 2.0.1019 (Zwickl, 2006) under the GTR + I + Γ model and other default settings. Trees were visualized with Figtree v. 1.3 (Rambaut and Drummond, 2009). The best tree was chosen from 100 runs of the data set and bootstrap values (1,000 iterations) are reported above each node. Bootstrap values <80% were not shown.

Supplementary Figure 4

Hierarchical clustering of antibiotic resistance related genes. Red values on dendrogram represent unbiased p-values determined by Pvclust package in R. The dendrogram was generated using the correlation distance method and the average linkage method.

Supplementary Figure 5

BLAST alignment of primers, described by Sahl et al. as specific for Shigella phylogenetic groups (Sahl et al., 2015), with genomes used in this study. A blue cell for a particular genome indicates that both primers of the pair aligned to 95% or greater sequence identity and should therefore hybridize to yield a PCR product. The phylogenetic group designation assigned by Sahl et al. is noted next to the cluster designations we observed with these genomes.

Supplementary Figure 6

In silico alignment of primer-probe sets described by Pavlovic et al. (2011) with genomes used in this study using BLAST. The lacY set was supposed to differentiate between Shigella (absent) and EIEC (present), while the uidA set was intended to be a positive control (present in both). BLAST identities of 92% or higher are shown with blue cells. Although PCR products are expected from a particular genome if both cells corresponding to the forward and reverse primers are highlighted in blue, the real-time PCR assay (Pavlovic et al., 2011) also require the respective probe to hybridize efficiently and therefore the respective cell to be highlighted in blue in the figure.

Supplementary Table 1

Strain information includes NCBI identifier (SRA#), Tree label/Strain designation, genus and species with serotype, O or H antigens, additional strain identifiers and reference for source of genomes.

Supplementary Table 2

Full list of diagnostic SNPs for Shigella and EIEC phylogenetic clusters. Includes phylogenetic cluster name, 21 bp sequence of region containing diagnostic SNP with ambiguous SNP state represented by “.”, diagnostic SNP state of cluster, position in the NCBI annotated reference genome (SD serotype 1, CP000034), gene name (“NA” if intergenic), functional gene product (“NA” if intergenic), COG identifier and reference genome (CP000034) locus tag.

Supplementary Table 3

Assembly statistics and genome metrics calculated by the Quast program. Includes Tree label/Strain designation, NCBI SRA accession number, number of contigs greater or equal to 1,000 bp (# contigs (≥1,000 bp)), number of contigs greater or equal to 0 bp ((# contigs (≥0 bp), total length of contigs greater or equal to 1,000 bp (Total length (≥1,000 bp)), total length of contigs greater or equal to 0 bp (Total length (≥0 bp)), number of contigs, largest contig (bp), total length of all contigs, percent GC content and number of N's per 100 kbp.

Summary

Keywords

Shigella, enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC), phylogeny, whole genome sequencing, classification, epidemiological markers

Citation

Pettengill EA, Pettengill JB and Binet R (2018) Corrigendum: Phylogenetic Analyses of Shigella and Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli for the Identification of Molecular Epidemiological Markers: Whole-Genome Comparative Analysis Does Not Support Distinct Genera Designation. Front. Microbiol. 8:2598. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02598

Received

01 November 2017

Accepted

12 December 2017

Published

09 January 2018

Volume

8 - 2017

Edited and reviewed by

Pina Fratamico, Agricultural Research Service (USDA), United States

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*Correspondence: Rachel Binet

This article was submitted to Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology

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