Transmission of toxigenic Clostridiodes difficile between a pet dog with diarrhea and a 10-month-old infant

Salud Rodríguez-Pallares; Pablo Fernández-Palacios; Estefanía Jurado-Tarifa; Federico Arroyo; Manuel A Rodríguez-Iglesias; Fátima Galán-Sánchez

doi:10.1016/j.anaerobe.2022.102519

Transmission of toxigenic Clostridiodes difficile between a pet dog with diarrhea and a 10-month-old infant

Anaerobe. 2022 Apr:74:102519. doi: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2022.102519. Epub 2022 Jan 21.

Authors

Salud Rodríguez-Pallares¹, Pablo Fernández-Palacios², Estefanía Jurado-Tarifa³, Federico Arroyo⁴, Manuel A Rodríguez-Iglesias⁵, Fátima Galán-Sánchez⁶

Affiliations

¹ UGC Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Avda. Ana de Viya 21, 11009, Cádiz, Spain. Electronic address: salud361@gmail.com.
² UGC Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Avda. Ana de Viya 21, 11009, Cádiz, Spain. Electronic address: pabferpal@gmail.com.
³ Instituto de Investigación e Innovación Biomédica de Cádiz (INIBICA), Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Avda. Ana de Viya 21, 11009, Cádiz, Spain. Electronic address: estefania.jurado@inibica.es.
⁴ UGC Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Avda. Ana de Viya 21, 11009, Cádiz, Spain. Electronic address: fede.arroyo.navarro@gmail.com.
⁵ UGC Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Avda. Ana de Viya 21, 11009, Cádiz, Spain; Instituto de Investigación e Innovación Biomédica de Cádiz (INIBICA), Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Avda. Ana de Viya 21, 11009, Cádiz, Spain; Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain. Electronic address: manuel.rodrigueziglesias@uca.es.
⁶ UGC Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Avda. Ana de Viya 21, 11009, Cádiz, Spain; Instituto de Investigación e Innovación Biomédica de Cádiz (INIBICA), Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Avda. Ana de Viya 21, 11009, Cádiz, Spain. Electronic address: fatima.galan@uca.es.

PMID: 35066151
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2022.102519

Abstract

We describe a case of interspecies transmission of toxigenic Clostridioides difficile involving a female and her dog, both with diarrhea without another diagnosis. Genomic analysis showed that isolates were grouped into MLST clade I, closely related to ribotype 020 and shared identical genotypes.

Keywords: Clostridioides difficile; Diarrhea; Dog; Pet; Toxigenic; WGS.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Animals
Clostridioides difficile* / genetics
Clostridium Infections* / diagnosis
Clostridium Infections* / veterinary
Diarrhea / diagnosis
Diarrhea / veterinary
Dogs
Female
Humans
Multilocus Sequence Typing
Ribotyping