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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 299, Issue 4, Pages 291-300Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2008.08.002
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Mollicutes; Cell line contamination; Mycoplasma; Real-time PCR; Multiplex PCR
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Polymerase chain reaction assays have become widely used methods of confirming the presence of Mollicutes species in clinical samples and cell cultures. We have developed a broad-range real-time PCR assay using the locked nucleic acid technology to detect mollicute species causing human infection and cell line contamination. Primers and probes specifically for the conserved regions of the mycoplasmal tuf gene (encoding elongation factor Tu) were designed. Cell culture supernatants, clinical specimens (vaginal swabs, sputum, cryopreserved heart valve tissues), and reference strains were tested for mollicute contamination as well as to exclude cross-reaction to human nucleic acids and other bacterial species. Nucleic acids were extracted using magnetic separation technology. The coamplification of the human beta 2-microglobulin DNA served as an internal control. The PCR assay was highly specific and obtained an analytical sensitivity of one copy per mu l sample. The 95% detection limit was calculated to 10 copies per mu l sample for Mycoplasma pneumoniae and M. orale. No false-positive results were observed due to cross-reaction of walled bacterial, fungal, and human nucleic acids. To evaluate the PCR, we compared the results to two commercialized test systems. Moreover, in combination with a previously developed broad-range RT-PCR assay for the detection of bacteria in blood products, both mollicute and walled bacterial contamination can be detected simultaneously using multiplex real-time RT-PCR. (c) 2008 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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