1887

Abstract

Thirty-five serovars from the species , , , , , and were characterized by the low-stringency single specific primer PCR (LSSP-PCR) technique. LSSP-PCR analysis was performed to detect DNA polymorphisms in a 285 bp DNA fragment amplified from genomic DNA with G1 and G2 selected primers. Similar LSSP-PCR profiles were obtained for serovars from the same genomic species, while serovars from non-related species produced distinct multiband patterns. Based on the data from sequence analysis, all genomic fragments amplified with G1 and G2 primers from distinct serovars of were 285 bp in length, with nucleotide variation observed most frequently among different genomic species. The simplicity and accuracy of the LSSP-PCR technique were found to be suitable for identification of species.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.04923-0
2003-02-01
2024-04-24
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/deliver/fulltext/jmm/52/2/127.html?itemId=/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.04923-0&mimeType=html&fmt=ahah

References

  1. Andrade L. O, Machado C. R, Chiari E, Pena S. D, Macedo A. M. 1999; Differential tissue distribution of diverse clones of Trypanosoma cruzi in infected mice. Mol Biochem Parasitol 100:163–172 [CrossRef]
    [Google Scholar]
  2. Bao L, Xiong Q, Zhang M, Wu W, Wan B, Li S, Terpstra W. J, Hartskeerl R. 1997; Characterization of reference strains of L. interrogans in China by ISSP-PCR. Hua Hsi I Ko Hsueh Pao 28:117–121
    [Google Scholar]
  3. Barreto G, Vago A. R, Ginther C, Simpson A. J. G, Pena S. D. J. 1996; Mitochondrial D-loop ‘‘signatures’’ produced by low-stringency single specific primer PCR constitute a simple comparative human identity test. Am J Hum Genet 58:609–616
    [Google Scholar]
  4. Brown P. D, Levett P. N. 1997; Differentiation of Leptospira species and serovars by PCR-restriction endonuclease analysis, arbitrarily primed PCR and low-stringency PCR. J Med Microbiol 46:173–181 [CrossRef]
    [Google Scholar]
  5. Caballero O. L. S, Dias Neto E, Koury M. C, Romanha A. J, Simpson A. J. G. 1994a; Low-stringency PCR with diagnostically useful primers for identification of Leptospira serovars. J Clin Microbiol 32:1369–1372
    [Google Scholar]
  6. Caballero O. L. S, Dias Neto E, Koury M. C, Romanha A. J, Simpson A. J. G. 1994b; Low-stringency PCR provides an internal control for negative results in PCR-based diagnosis. PCR Methods Appl 3:305–307 [CrossRef]
    [Google Scholar]
  7. Corney B. G, Colley J, Djordjevic S. P, Whittington R, Graham G. C. 1993; Rapid identification of some Leptospira isolates from cattle by random amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting. J Clin Microbiol 31:2927–2932
    [Google Scholar]
  8. Ellis W. A, Thiermann A. B, Montgomery J, Handsaker A, Winter P. J, Marshall R. B. 1988; Restriction endonuclease analysis of Leptospira interrogans serovar hardjo isolates from cattle. Res Vet Sci 44:375–379
    [Google Scholar]
  9. Gerritsen M. A, Smits M. A, Olyhoek T. 1995; Random amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting for rapid identification of leptospiras of serogroup Sejroe. J Med Microbiol 42:336–339 [CrossRef]
    [Google Scholar]
  10. Gomes M. A, Silva E. F, Macedo A. M, Vago A. R, Melo M. N. 1997; LSSP-PCR for characterization of strains of Entamoeba histolytica isolated in Brazil. Parasitology 114:517–520
    [Google Scholar]
  11. Gravekamp C, Van de Kemp H, Carrington D, Van Eys G. J. J. M, Everard C. O. R, Terpstra W. J. 1991; Detection of leptospiral DNA by PCR in serum from patients with copenhageni infection. In Proceedings of the Leptospirosis Research Conference pp 151–164 Edited by Kobayashi Y. Tokyo:
    [Google Scholar]
  12. Gravekamp C, Van de Kemp H, Franzen M, Carrington D, Schoone G. J, Van Eys G. J. J. M, Everard C. O. R, Hartskeerl R. A, Terpstra W. J. 1993; Detection of seven species of pathogenic leptospires by PCR using two sets of primers. J Gen Microbiol 139:1691–1700 [CrossRef]
    [Google Scholar]
  13. Johnson R. C, Harris V. G. 1967; Differentiation of pathogenic and saprophytic leptospires. I. Growth at low temperatures. J Bacteriol 94:27–31
    [Google Scholar]
  14. Marshall R. B, Winter P. J, Yanagawa R. 1984; Restriction endonuclease DNA analysis of Leptospira interrogans serovars i cterohaemorrhagiae and hebdomadis . J Clin Microbiol 20:808–810
    [Google Scholar]
  15. Merien F, Amouriaux P, Perolat P, Baranton G, Saint Girons I. 1992; Polymerase chain reaction for detection of Leptospira spp. in clinical samples. J Clin Microbiol 30:2219–2224
    [Google Scholar]
  16. Oliveira M. A. A, Hartskeerl R, Caballero O. L. S. D. 8 other authors 1994; LSSP-PCR: a methodology for Leptospira species determination using gene fragments derived during PCR based diagnosis. In Annals of the VIIIth Meeting of European Leptospira Workers vol: 1: pp 53–55 Anzio, Rome:
    [Google Scholar]
  17. Oliveira M. A. A, Caballero O. L. S. D, Dias Neto E, Koury M. C, Romanha A. J, Carvalho J, Hartskeerl R. A, Simpson A. J. G. 1995; Use of nondenaturing silver-stained polyacrylamide gel analysis of polymerase chain reaction amplification products for the differential diagnosis of Leptospira interrogans infection. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 22:343–348 [CrossRef]
    [Google Scholar]
  18. Pena S. D. J, Barreto G, Vago A. R, De Marco L, Reinach F. C, Dias Neto E, Simpson A. J. G. 1994; Sequence-specific ‘gene signatures’ can be obtained by PCR with single specific primers at low stringency. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 91:1946–1949 [CrossRef]
    [Google Scholar]
  19. Perolat P, Merien F, Ellis W. A, Baranton G. 1994; Characterization of Leptospira isolates from serovar hardjo by ribotyping, arbitrarily primed PCR, and mapped restriction site polymorphisms. J Clin Microbiol 32:1949–1957
    [Google Scholar]
  20. Ralph D, McClelland M, Welsh J, Baranton G, Perolat P. 1993; Leptospira species categorized by arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and by mapped restriction polymorphisms in PCR-amplified rRNA genes. J Bacteriol 175:973–981
    [Google Scholar]
  21. Sanguinetti C. J, Dias Neto E, Simpson A. J. G. 1994; Rapid silver staining and recovery of PCR products separated on polyacrylamide gels. Biotechniques 17:914–921
    [Google Scholar]
  22. Tamai T, Sada E, Kobayashi Y. 1988; Restriction endonuclease DNA analysis of Leptospira interrogans serovars Icterohaemorrhagiae and Copenhageni. Microbiol Immunol 32:887–894
    [Google Scholar]
  23. Terpstra W. J, Schoone G. J., ter Schegget J. 1986; Detection of leptospiral DNA by nucleic acid hybridization with 32P- and biotin-labelled probes. J Med Microbiol 22:23–28 [CrossRef]
    [Google Scholar]
  24. Vago A. R, Macedo A. M, Oliveira R. P. 8 other authors 1996; Kinetoplast DNA signatures of Trypanosoma cruzi strains obtained directly from infected tissues. Am J Pathol 149:2153–2159
    [Google Scholar]
  25. Vago A. R, Andrade L. O, Leite A. A. 7 other authors 2000; Genetic characterization of Trypanosoma cruzi directly from tissues of patients with chronic Chagas disease: differential distribution of genetic types into diverse organs. Am J Pathol 156:1805–1809 [CrossRef]
    [Google Scholar]
  26. Villa L. L, Caballero O. L, Levi J. E, Pena S. D. J, Simpson A. J. G. 1995; An approach to human papillomavirus identification using low stringency single specific primer PCR. Mol Cell Probes 9:45–48 [CrossRef]
    [Google Scholar]
  27. Yasuda P. H, Steigerwalt A. G, Sulzer K. R, Kaufman A. F, Rogers F, Brenner D. J. 1987; Deoxyribonucleic acid relatedness between serogroups and serovars in the family Leptospiraceae with proposals for seven new Leptospira species. Int J Syst Bacteriol 37:407–415 [CrossRef]
    [Google Scholar]
  28. Zuener R. L, Bolin C. A. 1990; Nucleic acid probe characterizes Leptospira interrogans serovars by restriction fragment length polymorphisms. Vet Microbiol 24:355–366 [CrossRef]
    [Google Scholar]
http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.04923-0
Loading
/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.04923-0
Loading

Data & Media loading...

This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a Success
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error