Quantitation of Helicobacter pylori ureC gene and its comparison with different diagnostic techniques and gastric histopathology.

Abstract:

:Numerous diagnostic assays for Helicobacter pylori detection are available. However, these techniques have their own advantages as well as limitations. Here we tried to develop a real-time quantitative (Q) PCR assay to measure ureC copy number to detect H. pylori, based on the fact that there is only one copy of the ureC gene per bacterium. We enrolled 120 adult patients [non-ulcer dyspepsia (NUD) 60, peptic ulcer disease (PUD) 20, gastric cancer (GC) 40] undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopies. During each endoscopic examination, antral biopsies from normal region of the antrum were obtained and subjected to the following tests: RUT, culture, histopathology, H. pylori-specific ureC PCR and ureC Q-PCR. Calculation of H. pylori copy number was based on the standard curve generated using 10-fold dilutions of DNA extracted from the H. pylori control strain varying from 10(5) to 10(1) copies. The prevalence of H. pylori infection in our study population was 54% with no significant difference among disease and control population. The sensitivity of Q-PCR was found to be 100% which was highest among all diagnostic tests. The established Q-PCR is around 10 times more sensitive than the conventional PCR method. The copy number of H. pylori DNA was significantly increased when overall gastritis, H. pylori density, chronic inflammation and intestinal metaplasia were present. In summary, we developed a rapid and sensitive Q-PCR method for detecting H. pylori. This technique offers a significant improvement over other available methods for detecting H. pylori in clinical and research samples.

journal_name

J Microbiol Methods

authors

Shukla SK,Prasad KN,Tripathi A,Ghoshal UC,Krishnani N,Nuzhat H

doi

10.1016/j.mimet.2011.05.012

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-08-01 00:00:00

pages

231-7

issue

2

eissn

0167-7012

issn

1872-8359

pii

S0167-7012(11)00199-0

journal_volume

86

pub_type

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