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Evidence of a bathroom environment as a hotspot for the infection of nontuberculous mycobcteria

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K10041
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 58020:Hygiene and public health-related: including laboratory approach
Research InstitutionKobe Institute of Health

Principal Investigator

Iwamoto Tomotada  神戸市環境保健研究所, 感染症部, 部長 (70416402)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
KeywordsNTM / Mycobacterium avium / genetic relatedness / VNTR / genetic diversity / bathroom environment / minimum spanning tree / 非結核性抗酸菌 / 浴室環境 / バイオフィルム / シャワー水 / 抗酸菌 / 肺MAC症 / 遺伝型別 / 系統分類 / 感染源 / 遺伝的多様性 / 非結核性抗酸菌症 / ゲノム / 肺NTM症 / 住環境
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis (MAH) is a typical inhabitat of the environment, especially bathrooms, which are considered as a potential source of infection. To corroborate this hypothesis, we determined the detection rate of MAH in bathrooms of healthy volunteers by an ordinary culture method and we analyzed the genetic relatedness of these isolates with those from patients and other sources such as river water and soil.
A minimum spanning tree generated on the basis of the variable numbers of tandem repeats (VNTR) data indicated that isolates from the bathrooms of the healthy volunteers had a high degree of genetic relatedness with those from Japanese patients, bathrooms of patients, and river water, but not with those from Russian patients and Japanese pigs. These results showed that bathtub inlets in Japan provide an environmental niche for MAH and suggest that bathrooms are one of the important infection sources of MAH in Japan.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、我が国の浴室がNTM菌への日常的な曝露のホットスポットであることを明らかにした。とりわけ、肺NTM症の主要な起因菌であるMycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis (MAH)は健常人家庭の浴室環境から高頻度に検出されるのみではなく、本研究における遺伝子解析により、臨床分離株との遺伝的関連性の高さが確認された。
現在、有効な治療方法が確立されていないMAH肺感染症について感染源の一つが特定されたことで、その曝露リスクを低減させることでの感染予防策への道を拓く研究成果であり、学術的にも社会的にも意義の大きな研究成果である。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2020 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 6 results,  Open Access: 3 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Two New Cases of Pulmonary Infection by Mycobacterium shigaense, Japan2020

    • Author(s)
      Yoshida Shiomi、Iwamoto Tomotada、Kobayashi Takehiko、Nomoto Ryohei、Inoue Yoshikazu、Tsuyuguchi Kazunari、Suzuki Katsuhiro
    • Journal Title

      Emerging Infectious Diseases

      Volume: 26 Issue: 11 Pages: 2728-2732

    • DOI

      10.3201/eid2611.200315

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Genetic relatedness of Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis isolates from bathrooms of healthy volunteers, rivers, and soils in Japan with human clinical isolates from different geographical areas2019

    • Author(s)
      Arikawa Kentaro、Ichijo Tomoaki、Nakajima Satomi、Nishiuchi Yukiko、Yano Hirokazu、Tamaru Aki、Yoshida Shiomi、Maruyama Fumito、Ota Atsushi、Nasu Masao、Starkova Daria A.、Mokrousov Igor、Narvskaya Olga V.、Iwamoto Tomotada
    • Journal Title

      Infection, Genetics and Evolution

      Volume: 74 Pages: 103923-103923

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.meegid.2019.103923

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Evaluation of Q Gene Mycobacteria: A novel and easy nucleic acid chromatography method for mycobacterial species identification2019

    • Author(s)
      Chikamatsu Kinuyo、Aono Akio、Kawai Akiko、Hata Hiroyuki、Iwamoto Tomotada、Igarashi Yuriko、Takaki Akiko、Yamada Hiroyuki、Mitarai Satoshi
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Microbiological Methods

      Volume: 163 Pages: 105657-105657

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.mimet.2019.105657

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in hsp65 and MACPPE12 Genes of Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis2019

    • Author(s)
      Starkova D. A.、Iwamoto T.、Vyazovaya A. A.、Molchanov V. M.、Zhuravlev V. Yu.、Vishnevsky B. I.、Narvskaya O. V.
    • Journal Title

      Russian Journal of Genetics

      Volume: 55 Issue: 5 Pages: 544-550

    • DOI

      10.1134/s1022795419050120

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The recombination-cold region as an epidemiological marker of recombinogenic opportunistic pathogen Mycobacterium avium2019

    • Author(s)
      Yano Hirokazu、Suzuki Haruo、Maruyama Fumito、Iwamoto Tomotada
    • Journal Title

      BMC Genomics

      Volume: 20 Issue: 1 Pages: 752-752

    • DOI

      10.1186/s12864-019-6078-2

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Phylogenetic uniqueness of Mycobacterium avium subspecies hominissuis isolated from an abnormal pulmonary bovine case2018

    • Author(s)
      Yoshida Shiomi、Araki Tsubasa、Asai Tomohito、Tsuyuguchi Kazunari、Arikawa Kentaro、Iwamoto Tomotada、Nakajima Chie、Suzuki Yasuhiko、Ohya Kenji、Yanai Tokuma、Wada Takayuki、Yamamoto Taro
    • Journal Title

      Infection, Genetics and Evolution

      Volume: 62 Pages: 122-129

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.meegid.2018.04.013

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] 結核・非結核性抗酸菌の分子疫学からみる抗酸菌とヒトとの関わり2019

    • Author(s)
      岩本朋忠
    • Organizer
      第89回 実験結核研究会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 全国規模での健康者浴室サンプリングによる非結核性抗酸菌の検出率と菌種多様性2019

    • Author(s)
      有川健太郎、中島聡美、高杉義之、矢野大和、吉田志緒美、岩本朋忠
    • Organizer
      第46回 日本防菌防黴学会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Genomics and local adaptation of Mycobacterium avium2018

    • Author(s)
      Tomotada Iwamoto
    • Organizer
      2nd St. Petersburg Symposium on Tuberculoss and Mycobacteria: Molecular Approach
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 抗酸菌のONE Healthにおける立ち位置は?2018

    • Author(s)
      岩本 朋忠
    • Organizer
      第93回日本結核病学会総会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2022-01-27  

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