Respiratory Tularemia: and Microarray Probe Designing.

BACKGROUND

() is the etiological microorganism for tularemia. There are different forms of tularemia such as respiratory tularemia. Respiratory tularemia is the most severe form of tularemia with a high rate of mortality; if not treated. Therefore, traditional microbiological tools and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) are not useful for a rapid, reliable, accurate, sensitive and specific diagnosis. But, DNA microarray technology does. DNA microarray technology needs to appropriate microarray probe designing.

OBJECTIVE

The main goal of this original article was to design suitable long oligo microarray probes for detection and identification of .

METHOD

For performing this research, the complete genomes of subsp. FSC198, subsp. LVS, subsp. , subsp. ( U112), and subsp. ATCC 25017 were studied NCBI BLAST tool, GView and PanSeq Servers and finally the microarray probes were produced and processed AlleleID 7.7 software and Oligoanalyzer tool, respectively.

RESULTS

In this investigation, a number of long oligo microarray probes were designed for detecting and identifying . Among these probes, 15 probes were recognized as the best candidates for microarray chip designing.

CONCLUSION

Calibrated microarray probes reduce the biasis of DNA microarray technology as an advanced, rapid, accurate and cost-effective molecular diagnostic tool with high specificity and sensitivity. Professional microarray probe designing provides us with much more facility and flexibility regarding preparation of a microarray diagnostic chip.