Chlamydia trachomatis from Australian Aboriginal people with trachoma are polyphyletic composed of multiple distinctive lineages.

Patiyan Andersson ; Simon R Harris ; Helena MB Seth Smith ; James Hadfield ; Colette O'Neill ; Lesley T Cutcliffe ; Fiona P Douglas ; L Valerie Asche ; John D Mathews ; Susan I Hutton ; +5 more... Derek S Sarovich ; Steven YC Tong ; Ian N Clarke ; Nicholas R Thomson ORCID logo ; Philip M Giffard ; (2016) Chlamydia trachomatis from Australian Aboriginal people with trachoma are polyphyletic composed of multiple distinctive lineages. Nature communications, 7 (1). 10688-. ISSN 2041-1723 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10688
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Chlamydia trachomatis causes sexually transmitted infections and the blinding disease trachoma. Current data on C. trachomatis phylogeny show that there is only a single trachoma-causing clade, which is distinct from the lineages causing urogenital tract (UGT) and lymphogranuloma venerum diseases. Here we report the whole-genome sequences of ocular C. trachomatis isolates obtained from young children with clinical signs of trachoma in a trachoma endemic region of northern Australia. The isolates form two lineages that fall outside the classical trachoma lineage, instead being placed within UGT clades of the C. trachomatis phylogenetic tree. The Australian trachoma isolates appear to be recombinants with UGT C. trachomatis genome backbones, in which loci that encode immunodominant surface proteins (ompA and pmpEFGH) have been replaced by those characteristic of classical ocular isolates. This suggests that ocular tropism and association with trachoma are functionally associated with some sequence variants of ompA and pmpEFGH.


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