Nasri Tuba, Hedayati Mohammad Taghi, Abastabar Mahdi, Pasqualotto Alessandro C, Armaki Mojtaba Taghizadeh, Hoseinnejad Akbar, Nabili Mojtaba
Student Research Committee, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
Invasive Fungi Research Center (IFRC), Department of Medical Mycology and Parasitology/School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
J Microbiol Methods. 2015 Oct;117:144-7. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2015.08.007. Epub 2015 Aug 8.
Aspergillus species are important agents of life-threatening infections in immunosuppressed patients. Proper speciation in the Aspergilli has been justified based on varied fungal virulence, clinical presentations, and antifungal resistance. Accurate identification of Aspergillus species usually relies on fungal DNA sequencing but this requires expensive equipment that is not available in most clinical laboratories. We developed and validated a discriminative low-cost PCR-based test to discriminate Aspergillus isolates at the species level. The Beta tubulin gene of various reference strains of Aspergillus species was amplified using the universal fungal primers Bt2a and Bt2b. The PCR products were subjected to digestion with a single restriction enzyme AlwI. All Aspergillus isolates were subjected to DNA sequencing for final species characterization. The PCR-RFLP test generated unique patterns for six clinically important Aspergillus species, including Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Aspergillus nidulans, Aspergillus terreus, Aspergillus clavatus and Aspergillus nidulans. The one-enzyme PCR-RFLP on Beta tubulin gene designed in this study is a low-cost tool for the reliable and rapid differentiation of the clinically important Aspergillus species.
曲霉属真菌是免疫抑制患者发生危及生命感染的重要病原体。基于不同的真菌毒力、临床表现和抗真菌药物耐药性,对曲霉进行准确的菌种鉴定具有重要意义。曲霉属菌种的准确鉴定通常依赖于真菌DNA测序,但这需要昂贵的设备,而大多数临床实验室并不具备。我们开发并验证了一种基于PCR的低成本鉴别试验,用于在菌种水平上鉴别曲霉分离株。使用通用真菌引物Bt2a和Bt2b扩增曲霉属各种参考菌株的β微管蛋白基因。PCR产物用单一限制性内切酶AlwI进行消化。所有曲霉分离株均进行DNA测序以进行最终的菌种鉴定。PCR-RFLP试验为六种临床重要的曲霉属菌种产生了独特的图谱,包括黄曲霉、烟曲霉、构巢曲霉、土曲霉、棒曲霉和构巢曲霉。本研究设计的基于β微管蛋白基因的单酶PCR-RFLP是一种低成本工具,可用于可靠、快速地区分临床重要的曲霉属菌种。
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