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Advances in Animal and Veterinary Sciences 2 (6): 321 – 328  


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InVitro Characterization of Listeria monocytogenes Isolates by Haemolysis, Camp, Piplc Assay with Protein Profiling and Antibiotic Resistance Recovered from Nagpur Region


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<strong>Nitin Chandhrakant Dudhe</strong><span><sup>1*</sup></span>, 

<strong>Sandip Prabhakar Chaudhary</strong><span><sup>1</sup></span>, 

<strong>Pranita Bhanudas Pantawane</strong><span><sup>2</sup></span>, 

<strong>Vinod Namdeorao Hirde</strong><span><sup>1</sup></span>, 

<strong>Thadiyam Puram Ramees</strong><span><sup>3</sup></span>, 

<strong>Nandkishor Namdeorao Zade</strong><span><sup>1</sup></span>  

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<li>Department of Veterinary Public Health & Epidemiology, Nagpur Veterinary College, Seminary hills, Nagpur 440006, India</li>

<li>Department of Veterinary Public Health, Bombay Veterinary College, Parel, Mumbai, 400012, India</li>

<li>Division of Veterinary Public Health, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly (U.P.) – 243122, India</li>


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  <p><span class="Author">*Corresponding author: drnitindudhe86@gmail.com</span></p>

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<span><b>ARTICLE CITATION:</b></span> 
Dudhe NC, Chaudhary SP, Pantawane PB, Hirde VN, Ramees TP, Zade NN (2014). InVitro characterization of Listeria monocytogenes isolates by haemolysis, CAMP, PIPLC assay with protein profiling and antibiotic resistance recovered from Nagpur region. Adv. Anim. Vet. Sci. 2 (6): 321 – 328.
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<span><b>Received: </b></span>2014–05–26, <span><b>Revised: </b></span>2014–07–03, <span><b>Accepted: </b></span>2014–07–04<br>

The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at 

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     <h3 class="Hdr3">ABSTRACT</h3>

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Listeria monocytogenes is one of the most virulent foodborne zoonotic pathogen with 20 to 30% of clinical infections resulting in death. The L. monocytogenes is ubiquitous in the nature and has been isolated from a variety of foods and environmental sources infecting human and animals revealing the pathogenicity of organism. Reports are very few regarding the pathogenesis of organism in Nagpur region, Maharashtra, India. So the present study was proposed to evaluate the pathogenicity of 12 L.monocytogenes isolates recovered from foods of animal origin (Chevon, pork, beef and carabeef) collected in and around Nagpur city. In vitro expression of pathogenisity was carried out by using viz., Haemolysis on Sheep blood agar (SBA), Christie Atkins Munch Petersen (CAMP) Test, Phosphatidylinositol–specific phospholipase–C (PI– PLC) assay along with protein profiling and subsequently studied for their pattern of antibiotic resistance. All 12 isolates of L. monocytogenes were found haemolytic in nature and showed PIPLC activity with variation in degree of production which designated them as pathogenic one. The protein profiles of all isolates exhibited minimum 25 to maximum 29 bands where protein bands of molecular weight from 56.237 kDa to 60.33 kDa and 29.226 kDa to 33.48 kDa shared by all isolates can be correlated with the haemolytic LLO (Listerolysin–O) and PI–PLC activity respectively. In antibiotic assay, most isolates showed multidrug resistance, besides no resistance was recorded towards Gentamycin, Norfloxacin, Ampicilin and Cefotaxime. The study revealed a high virulence nature of isolates of L. monocytogenes among food animals in and around Nagpur region. Haemolysin on SBA, PI–PLC activity along with exhibition of polypeptide in the range for these activities can be suggestive of protein profiling as technique for determination of pathogenicity    </p>
 
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  <h3 class="Hdr3">INTRODUCTION</h3>
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   Surveillance of food borne diseases is utmost priority in the public health agenda worldwide, as a leading cause of death from a food borne pathogen, Listeria monocytogenes continues to cause sporadic cases and outbreaks of illness. The organism is one of the most virulent food borne zoonotic pathogen having very high mortality rate (<a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Schlech 2000" target="_self">Schlech, 2010</a>) and the reports are increased in prevailing years worldwide (EFSA, 2012). Recently major outbreaks are reported in American and European countries (<a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Todd 2011" target="_self">Todd and Notermans, 2011</a>), revealing to date huge public health significance. The organism is ubiquitous in nature and widespread in environment inevitably results in contamination of numerous food products. Many attempts has been made to isolate Listeria spp. from a variety of foods and environmental sources such as water, sludge, soil, plants, vegetation, food, infecting humans and animals (<a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Liu 2008" target="_self">Liu, 2008</a>; <a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Dhama 2013" target="_self">Dhama et al., 2013</a>). However, the published information on the status of pathogenecity of L. monocytogenes from these foods is very scattered and unsystematic, both in the veterinary and public health sectors (<a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Khan 2013" target="_self">Khan et al., 2013</a>). Till date the cases of abortion, stillbirths, neonatal septicemia and encephalitis have been documented in human beings and domestic animals (<a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Jamali 2013" target="_self">Jamali and Radmehr, 2013</a>). <br />To assess the virulence properties of a particular L. monocytogenes isolate, the mouse pathogenicity and chick embryo test were preferred, for this skilled personnel and animal ethics are major concerns. Therefore alternative methods ideally should be based on the phenotypic characterization by in–vitro methods as Haemolysis, CAMP and PIPLC assay <br />
Hemolysis is an important characteristic which would seem to be directly related to the pathogenicity of Listeria, since non–haemolytic Listeria species can be considered as non–pathogenic (<a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#FAO 2008" target="_self">FAO/WHO/OIE, 2008</a>) and the pathogenicity of the pathogen is highly correlated to the haemolytic factor (<a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Yadav 2010" target="_self">Yadav et al., 2010</a>; <a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Momtaz 2013" target="_self">Momtaz and Yadollahi, 2013</a>). Considering haemolysis, only L. monocytogenes and L. ivanovii produced characteristic haemolysin like listeriolysin–O (LLO) and ivanolysin–O, respectively. <br />In CAMP test, haemolysin acts synergistically with the β– haemolysis of S. aureus on sheep erythrocytes and gives synergistic zone of hemolysis towards S. aureus which is due to either phosphatidylinositol specific or phosphatidyl–choline specific C from L. monocytogenes and sphingomyelinase from Staphylococcus aureus (<a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Farber 1991" target="_self">Farber and Peterkin, 1991</a>; <a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#McKellar 1994" target="_self">McKellar, 1994</a>). Evaluation of the pathogenicity of Listeria species by phosphatidylinositol specific phospholipase C (PI– PLC) based assay has been reported to be reliable indicator to discriminate pathogenic and non–pathogenic Listeria species (<a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Notermans 1991" target="_self">Notermans et al., 1991</a>). Copious workers have been used CAMP test to charecterised L. monocytogenes isolates (<a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Tasci 2010" target="_self">Tasci et al., 2010</a>; <a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Mahmoodi 2010" target="_self">Mahmoodi, 2010</a>; <a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Gebretsadik 2011" target="_self">Gebretsadik et al., 2011</a>).  In recent years, many resistant strains have been detected of listeriosis (Charpentier and Courvalin, 1999) this may be due to indiscriminate use of antibiotics results in the inflation of multi–drug resistance in L. monocytogenes bacteria, so antibiogram studies can be very useful in deciding line of treatment.
Keeping things in mind, the published information on status of L. monocytogenes in meat and methods available for the detection of pathogenic L. monocytogenes, we investigated the pathogenecity of L. monocytogenes isolates recovered from various meat samples in Nagpur, India, by examining in vitro  characterization of  L. monocytogenes isolates via Haemolytic, CAMP and PIPLC assay along with protein profiles. </p>
  
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Isolates</strong><br />
A total of 12 isolates of Listeria monocytogenes were isolated from meat samples and maintained in Division of Veterinary Public Health, Nagpur veterinary college, Nagpur Maharashtra and used for expression of in–vitro pathogenicity, protein profiling and antibiotic sensitivity tests.
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Biologicals</strong><br />
The standard bacterial strains of Listeria monocytogenes (MTCC 1143), Staphylococcus aureus (MTCC 3160) and Rhodococcus equi (MTCC 1135) were obtained from Microbial Type Culture Collection (MTCC) and Gene Bank, Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India. Chemicals/conjugates required for the study were procured from Sigma Aldrich (US) and Merk/Gene bank, India. The organisms were maintained on brain heart infusion agar slopes at 4oC and used for preparation of LLO.
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Haemolysis on Sheep Blood Agar (SBA)</strong><br />
Detection of haemolysin production was performed on sheep blood agar (SBA) as per <a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Cruickshank 1975" target="_self">Cruickshank et al., (1975)</a>. Freshly grown isolates were streaked onto blood agar plates prepared using defibrinated sheep blood (5 per cent), incubated at 370C for 24 hrs and observed for the zone of haemolysis (<a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Courtieu 1991" target="_self">Courtieu, 1991</a>). </p><p><strong>
Christie Atkins Munch Petersen (CAMP) Test</strong><br />
The isolates were subjected to CAMP test as per the method of ISO (1996). Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus (MTCC 3160) and Rhodococcus equi (MTCC 1135) were freshly grown in Brain Heart Infusion (BHI) broth for 18–24 hrs and streaked onto freshly prepared SBA plates (7 %)  in a manner of straight line with a distance of 3–4cm so that the streaks were wide apart and parallel to each other. Freshly grown isolates of L. monocytogenes were streaked in between two parallel streaks of S. aureus and R. equi at angle of 900 leaving a space of three mm against parallel streaks. The plates were incubated at 370C for 24 hrs and observed for enhanced zone from partial hemolysis to a wider zone of complete hemolysis.
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Phosphatidylinositol–Specific Phospholipase–C (PI– PLC) Assay</strong><br />
The PI– PLC assay was performed according to the standard procedure described by <a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Yadav 2010" target="_self">Yadav et al. (2010)</a>. The isolates of Listeria were overgrown on SBA 5 per cent Figures at 370C. These isolates were freshly grown in BHI broth for 18–24 hrs and then streaked onto L. mono differential agar (Hi Media Ltd, Mumbai, India). The inoculated Figures were incubated at 370C in a humidified chamber for 24 hrs. Development of light blue colonies were considered positive for PI–PLC assay and accordingly designated as pathogenic. </p><p><strong>
Protein Profile Employing SDS– PAGE</strong><br />
The protein profiling studies of L. monocytogenes isolates was employed as per the standard procedure described by <a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Lammeli 1970" target="_self">Lammeli, (1970)</a>. All isolates of L. monocytogenes were inoculated in 20 ml BHI broth with continuous aeration (shaker) at 370C for 12 hrs. The grown cultures were then centrifuged at 40C at 10,000 rpm for 5 min (REMI, India) to harvest the supernatants. The culture supernatants were then filtered through nitrocellulose acetate filters (0.45μ) to cell free culture supernatants. The cell free culture supernatants were processed for protein estimation as per <a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Lowry 1951" target="_self">Lowry et al., (1951)</a> and 24 μl of each were loaded onto lane of SDS–PAGE. </p><p><strong>
Sodium–Dodecyl Sulphate Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (SDS–PAGE)</strong><br />
In order to determine the molecular weight of purified protein, vertical polyacrylamide slab gel (12.5 %) and stacking gel (5 %) was casted in assembly (Banglore, Genei). An amount of approximately containing 7 μg proteins was mixed in 5x sample buffer. The mixture was boiled for three minutes and loaded after cooling in lane of each gel. Assembly was run at 40V (till stacking gel) and further at 90V (in separating gel). The dye front was noted for migration and completion of run. The protein molecular weight marker of medium range (Banglore, Genei) comprising of 97.4 kDa, 66 kDa, 43 kDa, 29 kDa, 20.1 kDa and 14.3 kDa was used as standard. The protein profiles were visualized by employing silver staining technique as per <a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Rosenberg 1996" target="_self">Rosenberg, (1996)</a>. The gels were photographed using gel documentation system (BioRad, US) and further calculations of molecular weights (MW) of the peptides were done by extrapolation of relative mobility of the unknown protein against that of standard molecular weight marker using quality– One software (BioRad, US). </p><p><strong>
Antibiotic Sensitivity Test </strong><br />
Antibiotic sensitivity of L. monocytogenes isolates to various antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents was studied by agar disc diffusion method using single antibiotic disc (<a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Bauer 1966" target="_self">Bauer et al., 1966</a>). The selection of antibiotic was based on the routinely used antibiotic in field viz., Ampicillin, Cephotaxime, Cloxacillin, Erythromycin, Gentamicin, Kanamycin, Nalidixic acid, Norfloxacin, Penicillin–G, Rifampicin, Oxytetracycline and Ceftriaxone (Table 12).
The isolates were freshly grown in BHI broth for 18–24 hrs and then spread evenly on BHI agar plates by using sterile cotton swabs. The antibiotic discs were then placed with the help of sterile forceps and plates were incubated at 37oC for 24 hrs. After incubation, zone of inhibition around each antibiotic disc was measured and each isolate was noted as a sensitive, moderately sensitive and resistant against respective antibiotic based on the size of inhibition zone according to manufactures instruction (Hi–Media Mumbai). </p>
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All 12 isolates of L. monocytogenes were found haemolytic with variation in degree of haemolysin production based on which differentiated into strong and weak haemolysin producing strain. However among 12 isolates, isolate p49 showed extensive haemolytic zone while remaining 11 isolates showed a mild zone of haemolysis (Figure1; Table 1).
Significant enhanced zone of haemolysis was produced by all 12 isolates of L. monocytogenes towards S. aureus (MTCC 3160) and subsequently no zone was recorded towards R. equi (MTCC1143). Similarly, the isolates showed cent percent positivity in case of PIPLC activity. However, the results are varied as strong PI–PLC producer (++) in case of isolates from cattle (C14) and other for goats (G21) were noted (Figure 2 and 3; Table 1).


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            The protein profiles of all isolates exhibited minimum 25 to maximum 29 bands ranging from lowest 6.090 kDa to 134.867 kDa (Figure 4a and 4b). The presence of protein bands of molecular weight from 56.237 kDa to 60.33 kDa shared by all isolates of L. monocytogenes (Table 2a and 2b) can be representing haemolysin LLO. Parallelly these isolates were found haemolytic on SBA and thereby the ability of isolate to invade the host cell confirming its pathogenicity. The isolates also exhibited and shared polypeptide in the range of 29.226 kDa to 33.48 kDa (Table 2a and 2b).
In antibiotic assay, all isolates of L. monocytogenes (100%) were found to be resistant to one or more antibiotics. Nalidixic acid, Penicilin and Cloxacillin exhibited 100% resistance followed by Kanamycin, Rifampicin, Ceftriaxone, Tetracycline and Erythromycin 


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    <div><p>was in 91.66, 66.66, 50, 33.33 and 16.66% of strain respectively. No resistance was recorded towards Gentamycin, Norfloxacin, Ampicilin and Cefotaxime. Highest sensitivity of 91.66% was found against Gentamycin (Table 3).</p></div>

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    Multiple virulence factors such as hemolysin, CAMP, PIPLC assay are important in the pathogenesis of L. monocytogenes infections (<a href="http://www.nexusacademicpublishers.com/table_contents_detail/4/322/html/#Rawool 2007" target="_self">Rawool et al., 2007</a>) and indicate the potential of virulent strains to invade host cells and cause listeriosis (Ryser and Marth, 2007). </p>
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