Gillers Sara, Atkinson Christopher D, Bartoo Aaron C, Mahalanabis Madhumita, Boylan Michael O, Schwartz John H, Klapperich Catherine, Singh Satish K
Department of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology, Boston University School of Medicine, Suite 504, 650 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118, United States.
J Microbiol Methods. 2009 Aug;78(2):203-7. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2009.05.020. Epub 2009 Jun 6.
In this paper, we describe the design of a microfluidic sample preparation chip for human stool samples infected with Clostridium difficile. We established a polymerase chain reaction able to distinguish C. difficile in the presence of several other organisms found in the normal intestinal flora. A protocol for on-chip extraction of nucleic acids from clinical samples is described that can detect target DNA down to 5.0x10(-3) ng of template. The assay and sample preparation chip were then validated using known positive and known negative clinical samples. The work presented has potential applications in both the developed and developing world.
在本文中,我们描述了一种用于感染艰难梭菌的人类粪便样本的微流控样品制备芯片的设计。我们建立了一种聚合酶链反应,能够在正常肠道菌群中发现的几种其他生物体存在的情况下区分艰难梭菌。本文描述了一种从临床样本中进行芯片上核酸提取的方案,该方案能够检测低至5.0×10⁻³纳克模板的目标DNA。然后使用已知的阳性和已知的阴性临床样本对该检测方法和样品制备芯片进行了验证。所展示的这项工作在发达国家和发展中国家都有潜在的应用。