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JOURNAL OF VETERINARY DIAGNOSTIC INVESTIGATION
Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 25-30Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/104063870902100104
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Diagnostic assay; edema disease; enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli; multiplex polymerase chain reaction; porcine diarrhea; virulence factors; virulence genes
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A multiplex polymerase chain reaction (mPCR) assay was developed for detection and characterization of pathogenic Escherichia coli that cause diarrhea and edema disease in swine. The mPCR assay was designed as a single reaction for detecting 5 different adhesins (K88, K99, 98713, F41, and 1718), 3 enterotoxins (LT, STaP, and STb), and the Shiga toxin (Stx2e) associated with porcine pathogenic E. coli. The specificity of the mPCR assay was evaluated by comparison with results from previous analysis of 100 porcine isolates characterized by colony blot hybridization with DNA probes for the 5 adhesins and 4 toxin genes. There was complete agreement between the 2 methods. The mPCR assay for E coli pathogens isolated from swine was further evaluated by examination of strains containing virulence factors that are known to have different antigenic subtypes or DNA sequence variations. It was found that the mPCR assays targeting genes encoding for K88 and F18 amplified products with the appropriate sizes from strains containing genes for different K88 and F18 antigenic subtypes: mPCR assays targeting the gene encoding for STaP amplified product from only STaP-positive but not STaH-positivec isolates; and mPCR assays targeting the gene encoding for the Stx2 amplified products from only Stx2-positive and not Stx1-positive isolates. Similarly, mPCR assays targeting the gene encoding for LTI did not produce the appropriate product from strains containing genes for LTII The mPCR assays are simple to perform, and they should be useful for diagnosis of porcine colibacillosis, including the genotypic characterization of E coli isolates from pigs with diarrhea or edema disease.
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