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ArticleJournal of clinical microbiology2010

Multiplex-PCR method for species identification of coagulase-positive staphylococci.

Takashi Sasaki, Sae Tsubakishita, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Arihito Sakusabe, Masayuki Ohtsuka, Shintaro Hirotaki, Tetsuji Kawakami, Tsuneo Fukata, Keiichi Hiramatsu

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Article in Journal of clinical microbiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 192 papers.

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192 citing papers in PubMed, 435 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Takashi SasakiDepartment of Infection Control Science, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan. hiteiha@juntendo.ac.jp
Sae Tsubakishita
Yoshikazu Tanaka
Arihito Sakusabe
Masayuki Ohtsuka
Shintaro Hirotaki
Tetsuji Kawakami
Tsuneo Fukata
Keiichi Hiramatsu
Juntendo University · JPGifu University · JPNippon Veterinary and Life Science University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In veterinary medicine, coagulase-positive staphylococci (CoPS) other than Staphylococcus aureus have frequently been misidentified as being S. aureus strains, as they have several phenotypic traits in common. There has been no reliable method to distinguish among CoPS species in veterinary clinical laboratories. In the present study, we sequenced the thermonuclease (nuc) genes of staphylococcal species and devised a multiplex-PCR (M-PCR) method for species identification of CoPS by targeting the nuc gene locus. To evaluate sensitivity and specificity, we used this M-PCR method on 374 staphylococcal strains that had been previously identified to the species level by an hsp60 sequencing approach. We could successfully distinguish between S. aureus, S. hyicus, S. schleiferi, S. intermedius, S. pseudintermedius, and S. delphini groups A and B. The present method was both sensitive (99.8%) and specific (100%). Our M-PCR assay will allow the routine species identification of CoPS isolates from various animal species for clinical veterinary diagnosis.

Indexed as

AnimalsBacteriological TechniquesDNA, BacterialDNA PrimersMicrococcal NucleaseMolecular Sequence DataPolymerase Chain ReactionPolymorphism, GeneticSensitivity and SpecificityStaphylococcal InfectionsStaphylococcusVeterinary MedicineDNA, BacterialDNA PrimersMicrococcal Nuclease

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PMID20053855
PMCPMC2832457
OpenAlexW2156668469

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