Evaluation of the Discriminatory Power of Typing Methods for Neisseria gonorrhoeae

AUTOR(ES)

Van Looveren, M.

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

A panel of 18 strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, known to be temporally and geographically diverse, was used to evaluate a number of typing systems, including conventional auxotyping and serotyping and the molecular methods of arbitrarily primed PCR (AP-PCR), amplified ribosomal-DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA), opa typing, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). The discriminatory power of the different typing methods were determined with a collection of 87 clinical isolates from commercial sex workers in Indonesia, and Simpson’s index of diversity was calculated. Of the two traditional techniques, auxotyping and serotyping, the latter gives the highest discriminatory index (DI) (DI, 0.846). The combination of auxotyping and serotyping yields a high DI (DI, 0.928). D11344- and D8635-primed PCR showed low DIs of 0.608 and 0.622, respectively, but a combination of the two primers had a DI of 0.849. The combination of serotyping with D11344-primed or D8635-primed PCR resulted in DIs of 0.936 and 0.937, respectively. ARDRA revealed a low DI of 0.743 alone but a DI of 0.955 in combination with serotyping. PFGE using the restriction enzyme BglII and opa typing produced the highest discrimination (DIs, 0.997 and 0.996, respectively) for isolates of N. gonorrhoeae.

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