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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 40, 期 10, 页码 3720-3728出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.10.3720-3728.2002
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- NCI NIH HHS [P30 CA016672, CA 16672] Funding Source: Medline
Helicobacter pylori is one of the most common chronic infections in humans, in whom it is a key etiological factor in peptic ulcer disease, gastric mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma, and gastric adenocarcinoma. Humans are the bacterium's only host. Here we report the development of a real-time quantitative (Q) PCR-based assay to measure ureC gene copy number to detect H. pylori, based on the fact that there is only one copy of the ureC gene per bacterium. Upon optimization of LightCycler Q-PCR conditions, we obtained a standard curve with a linear range (correlation coefficient = 1) across six logs of DNA concentration. We were able to accurately quantify as few as 1,000 bacteria in our assay. Analysis of variance on 15 randomly selected clinical samples showed good reproducibility of this assay. Comparison of Q-PCR results with bacterial culture and histopathological results from an additional 85 clinical biopsy samples showed a significant difference for the presence of H. pylori. Many samples that were negative for H. pylori by culture and histopathology were positive by Q-PCR. Contamination of PCR by H. pylori or H. pylori genetic material could not be ruled out. In summary, we developed a rapid, sensitive, and real-time Q-PCR method for detecting H. pylori. This technique offers a significant improvement over other available methods for detecting H. pylori in clinical and research samples.
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