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ArticleJournal of clinical laboratory analysis2013

Detection of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli using a two-system multiplex-PCR protocol.

Octaviana Baccin Fialho, Emanuel Maltempi de Souza, Cibelle de Borba Dallagassa, Fábio de Oliveira Pedrosa, Giseli Klassen, Kinue Irino, Katia Sabrina Paludo, Flávia Emanoelli Araújo de Assis, Monica Surek, Sônia Maria de Souza Santos Farah and 1 more

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Article in Journal of clinical laboratory analysis, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Octaviana Baccin FialhoDepartamento de Patologia Médica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba-PR, Brazil.
Emanuel Maltempi de Souza
Cibelle de Borba Dallagassa
Fábio de Oliveira Pedrosa
Giseli Klassen
Kinue Irino
Katia Sabrina Paludo
Flávia Emanoelli Araújo de Assis
Monica Surek
Sônia Maria de Souza Santos Farah
Cyntia Maria Telles Fadel-Picheth
Universidade Federal do Paraná · BRInstituto Adolfo Lutz · BRUniversidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa · BR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDiarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) strains are important causes of diarrhea. However, they cannot be distinguished from E. coli of the intestinal microbiota by conventional microbiological tests.

methodsThis work presents a two-system multiplex PCR for detection of DEC. Primers for 16S rRNA gene were added as internal amplification control to validate negative reactions. The multiplex-PCR system 1 contains primers for detection of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC; stx1, stx2), enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC; eae, bfpA), atypical enteropathogenic E. coli (aEPEc; eae), enteroinvasive E. coli (ETEC; lt, st), enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC; ial), and the internal amplification control 16S rRNA. The system 2 contains primers for EIEC (ipaH), enteroaggregative E. coli (CVD432), diffusely adherent E. coli (daaE), and 16S rRNA. The protocol was tested with E. coli reference strains, and also with cultures of fecal specimens of people with diarrhea and healthy controls.

resultsThe protocol correctly identified the DEC reference strains. No DEC marker was amplified for negative controls; these results were validated by the amplification of a fragment of the 16S rRNA gene. The frequency of DEC was 7.6% for both patients and healthy controls; two Shigella sonnei strains were detected in the group with diarrhea. The identity of the amplicons was confirmed by DNA sequencing.

conclusionThe protocol is specific for DEC Shigella and is suitable for clinical laboratories.

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Enteropathogenic Escherichia coliEscherichia coli InfectionsFecesHumansMolecular Diagnostic TechniquesMultiplex Polymerase Chain ReactionSensitivity and Specificity

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PMID23424166
PMCPMC6807360
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