Identification of Aeromonas hydrophila hybridization group 1 by PCR assays.

AUTOR(ES)

Cascón, A

RESUMO

Synthetic oligonucleotide primers of 24 and 23 bases were used in a PCR assay to amplify a sequence of the lip gene, which encodes a thermostable extracellular lipase of Aeromonas hydrophila. A DNA fragment of approximately 760 bp was amplified from both sources, i.e., lysed A. hydrophila cells and isolated DNA. The amplified sequence was detected in ethidium bromide-stained agarose gels or by Southern blot analysis with an internal HindIII-BamHI 356-bp fragment as a hybridization probe. With A. hydrophila cells, the sensitivity of the PCR assay was < 10 CFU, and with the isolated target, the lower detection limit was 0.89 pg of DNA. Primer specificity for A. hydrophila was determined by the PCR assay with cells of 50 strains of bacteria, including most of the 14 currently recognized DNA hybridization groups of Aeromonas spp. as well as other human and environmental Aeromonas isolates. Detection of A. hydrophila by PCR amplification of DNA has great potential for rapid identification of this bacterium because it has proved to be highly specific.

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