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EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY
Volume 112, Issue 2, Pages 109-114Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2005.09.012
Keywords
mitochondrial DNA; Clonorchis sinensis; Opisthorchis viverrini; metacercariae; multiplex PCR; specificity; sensitivity
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- Wellcome Trust [068762] Funding Source: Medline
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We report a single, one-step PCR approach for detection and discrimination of Clonorchis sinensis and Opisthorchis viverrini in different life-stage forms (adults, metacercariae, and eggs) from fish intermediate hosts and from infected patients. Primers designed for species-specific PCR, amplifying portions of the mitochondrial (mt) genome, were also suitable for a multiplex PCR. The latter was a single, one-step reaction under high stringency conditions, using simultaneously 2 pairs of primers (I pair for C sinensis-product size 612bp, and 1 pair for O. viverrini-product size 1357 bp). Assays using serially diluted templates demonstrated that as little as 0.78 ng of genomic DNA of either species could yield amplicons. Genomic DNA extracted from different life-stage forms including adult worms (of both species), eggs (of O. viverrini), eggs possibly of several trematode species (collected from patients infected with C sinensis in Vietnam) and mixed metacercariae of common trematodes (collected from fishes in the C sinensis endemic areas), yielded specific bands of the correct size and their identity was confirmed by sequence analysis. The multiplex PCR approach described here proved to be a species-specific, sensitive and fast tool for accurate diagnosis of clonorchiasis and/or opisthorchiasis, permitting the detection of their metacercariae in infected fishes or adult/eggs from patients in endemic areas. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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