Sing Andreas, Hogardt Michael, Bierschenk Suse, Heesemann Jürgen
National Consiliary Laboratory on Diphtheria, 80336 Munich, Germany.
J Clin Microbiol. 2003 Oct;41(10):4848-51. doi: 10.1128/JCM.41.10.4848-4851.2003.
While Corynebacterium ulcerans can mimic classical diphtheria, extrapharyngeal infections are extremely rare. Sequencing of the diphtheria toxin (DT)-encoding tox gene of two C. ulcerans isolates from extrapharyngeal infections revealed differences from C. diphtheriae DT sequences, mainly in the translocation and receptor-binding domains. C. ulcerans supernatants were much less potent than supernatant from C. diphtheriae. A C. ulcerans DT-specific PCR is described below.
虽然溃疡棒状杆菌可模仿典型的白喉,但咽外感染极为罕见。对两株来自咽外感染的溃疡棒状杆菌分离株的白喉毒素(DT)编码tox基因进行测序,发现其与白喉棒状杆菌DT序列存在差异,主要在易位和受体结合结构域。溃疡棒状杆菌的上清液效力远低于白喉棒状杆菌的上清液。下文介绍一种溃疡棒状杆菌DT特异性PCR。