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JOURNAL OF VETERINARY MEDICAL SCIENCE
Volume 75, Issue 4, Pages 399-406Publisher
JAPAN SOC VET SCI
DOI: 10.1292/jvms.12-0361
Keywords
Anaplasma marginale; cattle; Mongolia; Msp5; PCR
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- program for the Promotion of Basic Research Activities for Innovative Biosciences (PROBRAIN)
- Global COE Program from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, Culture, and Technology
- Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Japan
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Anaplasma marginale is an etiologic agent of bovine anaplasmosis. This study aimed to molecularly detect and characterize A. marginale that is prevalent in Mongolian cattle populations. A highly specific and sensitive nested PCR (nPCR) method based on the Msp5 gene was developed to detect A. marginate (Msp5 nPCR). The method detected A. marginate from the positive DNA samples obtained from different countries, while no amplicons were observed from DNA samples of several other bovine blood pathogens tested. The detection limit of Msp5 nPCR was determined to be 2 copies/mu l. The method was tested against field blood DNA samples prepared from 300 Mongolian cattle in 2010. Results indicated a prevalence rate of 8.7% (26 of 300). On the other hand, partial DNA fragments of an Anaplasma sp. closely related to A. ovis (with 95.0% identity) were detected using a different nPCR method based on groEL gene. The phylogenetic analyses based on the Msp5, groEL and 16S rRNA genes demonstrated that A. marginate isolates in Mongolia were not divergent from the isolates distributed in other countries. The present study successfully established a new nPCR assay that can detect A. marginate, and reported the first molecular detection and characterization of A. marginate and an Anaplasma sp. closely related to A. ovis in Mongolian cattle populations.
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