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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 7, Pages 2314-2319Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02197-07
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease [R01-AI45580]
- United States Department of Agriculture [2003-35204-13825]
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Endothelial cell culture and preliminary immunofluorescent staining of Anaplasma-infected tissues suggest that endothelial cells may be an in vivo nidus of mammalian infection. To investigate endothelial cells and other potentially cryptic sites of Anaplasma sp. infection in mammalian tissues, a sensitive and specific isothermal in situ technique to detect localized Anaplasma gene sequences by using rolling-circle amplification of circularizable, linear, oligonucleotide probes (padlock probes) was developed. Cytospin preparations of uninfected or Anaplasma-infected cell cultures were examined using this technique. Via fluorescence microscopy, the technique described here, and a combination of differential interference contrast microscopy and von Willebrand factor immunofluorescence, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma marginale were successfully localized in situ within intact cultured mammalian cells. This work represents the first application of this in situ method for the detection of a microorganism and forms the foundation for future applications of this technique to detect, localize, and analyze Anaplasma nucleotide sequences in the tissues of infected mammalian and arthropod hosts and in cell cultures.
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