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JOURNAL OF VETERINARY DIAGNOSTIC INVESTIGATION
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 448-456Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/104063870802000406
Keywords
Classical swine fever virus; lapinized vaccine strains; nontranslated region; reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction
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- Council of Agriculture, Taiwan, Republic of China
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A simple one-step reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method was developed based oil T-rich insertions in the viral genome for simultaneous detection and differentiation of wild type and vaccine strains of Classical swine fever virus (CSFV). The CSFV-specific primers were designed to contain the sequences of the T-rich insertion sites that exist uniquely in the 3' nontranslated regions (3' NTR) of the genome of lapinized CSFV vaccine strains. By using it one-step RT-PCR or a nested PCR followed by an agarose gel electrophoresis or a multicapillary electrophoresis, the wild-type and lapinized vaccine strains of CSFV in clinical samples Could be detected and accurately distinguished. These assays can be applied to at least 3 attenuated lapinized vaccine strains, lapinized Philippines Coronel (LPC), hog cholera lapinized virus (HCLV), and Chinese strain (C strain). The detection limit of the wild-type virus was 6.3 TCID50 (50% tissue Culture infective dose)/ml for RT-PCR and 0.63 TCID50/ml for nested PCR. In previous studies, notable T-rich insertions of 12-13 nucleotides (nt) were found in the 3' NTR of the genome of lapinized vaccine strains of CSFV. However, this Study discovered that 2 T-rich insertions, 42 and 36 nt in length, are present in the viral genome of lapinized vaccine strains LPC/PRK (primary rabbit kidney) and LPC/TS (Tam-Sui), respectively. These T-rich insertions of 12, 36, and 42 nt length increases the size of PCR fragments, which are favorable genetic markers for rapid detection of and differentiation between wild-type and different lapinized vaccine strains of CSFV.
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