人和动物条件致病菌环境菌株侵染植物的研究进展

Advances in humans and animals opportunistic pathogens from environment infecting plants by crossing kingdoms

越来越多的研究表明某些在环境中普遍存在的人与动物的病原微生物能够跨界侵染不同生物界的寄主。本文就Serratia marcescens,Enterobacter cloacae,Pseudomonas aeuriginosa,Klebsiella pneumoniae等动物条件病原细菌环境菌株跨界侵染植物的研究现状进行了综述。这些病原菌在自然界中普遍存在,能够利用与感染人类相同或不同的侵染策略跨界侵染植物,以拓宽其寄主范围。其中,肺炎克雷伯氏菌(Klebsiella pneumoniae)能在自然条件下引起玉米发生顶腐病,揭示了环境中的某些植物可作为各种病原细菌的天然储存库,在条件合适的情况下可能会感染人类和动物,以及在食品生产中的潜在危害。对这些跨界病原菌的研究,在人、动物和植物流行病学上具有非常重要意义,也为环境科学提出了新的研究热点。

Some pathogenic microorganisms ubiquitous in the environment could cross kingdoms to infect diverse hosts. Several cross-kingdom human pathogens were summarized in this paper, including Serratia marcescens, Enterobacter cloacae and Pseudomonas aeuriginosa. They are ubiquitous in the nature and could cause plant diseases using the same or different infection strategies with which they infect humans and broaden host range. Among these bacteria, Klebsiella pneumoniae causes top rot disease of maize in the nature, revealing some plants in the environment could serve as a reservoir of various pathogens which might infect animals and probably humans when conditions are favorable, and even potentially harm food. Research on these cross-kingdom pathogens may play a very important role in the epidemiology of human, animal and plant diseases and be a hot topic in environment science.