Abstract:
:Bacteroides fragilis is an obligatory anaerobic, gram-negative bacterium found among the normal intestinal flora of humans. Enterotoxigenic strains of B. fragilis (ETBF) have been associated with diarrheal diseases in humans and animals. The enterotoxin of ETBF induces fluid changes in ligated intestinal segments and cytotoxic response in HT29/C1 cells. By using a pair of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs; MAb C3 and MAb 4H8) specific for the lipopolysaccharide of B. fragilis, an assay based on immunomagnetic separation (IMS) in combination with PCR (IMS-PCR) was developed. After DNA extraction, a 294-bp fragment was amplified. The specificity of the IMS-PCR assay was evaluated by adding previously isolated and confirmed ETBF strains to normal fecal samples. All fecal samples to which ETBF strains were added were positive, showing a 100% specificity. The spiked fecal samples were also used for evaluation of the sensitivity of the assay. The detection limit was found to be approximately 50 CFU/g of feces. By this method 10 clinical fecal samples (5 from patients with diarrhea and 5 from healthy controls) were examined. The results of PCR were in accordance with the results of the HT29/C1 cell assay for all samples. The minimum time to retrieval of the final result by the IMS-PCR method is 36 h. The proposed IMS-PCR assay is rapid and sensitive for the direct detection of ETBF in stool samples.
journal_name
J Clin Microbioljournal_title
Journal of clinical microbiologyauthors
Zhang G,Weintraub Adoi
10.1128/JCM.36.12.3545-3548.1998subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-12-01 00:00:00pages
3545-8issue
12eissn
0095-1137issn
1098-660Xjournal_volume
36pub_type
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