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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PROBES
卷 20, 期 3-4, 页码 147-153出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2005.09.007
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Legionella pneumophila; real-time PCR; water; contamination
In a real-time PCR assay of Legionella pneumophila (targeting the L pneumophila-specific inip gene and using SYBR Green dye for DNA detection in conjunction with the iCycler system) we detected as few as 1.3 copies of a inip gene in a 50-mu l reaction from serially diluted L. pneumophila genomic DNA. However, cycle threshold (C-T) were yielded and DNA product detected in our no-template negative controls and the phenomenon persisted when two separate batches of PCR reagents and water from two different biochemical companies were tested. Since L. pneumophila can be widespread in municipal water supplies, the commercial reagents, especially the reagent water (80% of the reaction volume), could be the source of contamination. To test this hypothesis, we treated Millipore Milli-Q water by filtering through a 0.2 mu m-pore-size polycarbonate filter to remove bacteria prior to autoclaving. Real-time PCR using this water had no contamination. Our finding is indirect evidence that commercially available purified water can harbor low level contamination by L. pneunophila DNA that has escaped purification processes. This presents a challenge when developing a sensitive DNA-based bacterial detection method if the target organism or its DNA is a common contaminant of necessary reagents. C 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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