RRC ID 17457
著者 Sato T, Takayanagi A, Nagao K, Tomatsu N, Fukui T, Kawaguchi M, Kudoh J, Amagai M, Yamamoto N, Shimizu N.
タイトル Simple PCR-based DNA microarray system to identify human pathogenic fungi in skin.
ジャーナル J Clin Microbiol
Abstract Fungal diseases in immunocompromised hosts pose significant threats to their prognoses. An accurate diagnosis and identification of the fungal pathogens causing the infection are critical to determine the proper therapeutic interventions, but these are often not achieved, due to difficulties with isolation and morphological identification. In an effort to ultimately carry out the simultaneous detection of all human pathogenic microbes, we developed a simple system to identify 26 clinically important fungi by using a combination of PCR amplification and DNA microarray assay (designated PCR-DM), in which PCR-amplified DNA from the internal transcribed spacer region of the rRNA gene was hybridized to a DNA microarray fabricated with species-specific probes sets using the Bubble Jet technology. PCR-DM reliably identified all 26 reference strains; hence, we applied it to cases of onychomycosis, taking advantage of the accessibility of tissue from skin. PCR-DM detected fungal DNA and identified pathogens in 92% of 106 microscopy-confirmed onychomycosis specimens. In contrast, culture was successful for only 36 specimens (34%), 3 of which had results inconsistent with the results of PCR-DM, but sequence analysis of the isolates proved that the PCR-DM result was correct. Thus, PCR-DM provides a powerful method to identify pathogenic fungi with high sensitivity and speed directly from tissue specimens, and this concept could be applied to other fungal or nonfungal infectious human diseases in less accessible anatomical sites.
巻・号 48(7)
ページ 2357-64
公開日 2010-7-1
DOI 10.1128/JCM.02185-09
PII JCM.02185-09
PMID 20421438
PMC PMC2897498
MeSH Candida / genetics Candida / isolation & purification* DNA, Fungal / analysis DNA, Fungal / isolation & purification Humans Nails / microbiology Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / methods* Onychomycosis* / diagnosis Onychomycosis* / microbiology Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods* Predictive Value of Tests Species Specificity Trichophyton / genetics Trichophyton / isolation & purification*
IF 5.897
引用数 29
WOS 分野 MICROBIOLOGY
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